Joint attention not only is the basis for an infant's information processing development but it also fosters ____
a. personality styles
b. temperamental wellbeing
c. physiological growth
d. language and emotional communication
D. Joint attention is the basis not just of infants' information processing development but of language and emotional communication. For example, one way infants and children learn new words is to observe what another person is looking at or doing when they use a word.
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Pat can only remember the events up to the time of his serious brain infection. He can't recall anything that has happened since. If he is given a word to remember, then gets distracted for a few seconds, he can't remember the word. He forgets what he had for dinner minutes afterward. Pat's problem is:
a. anterograde amnesia b. retrograde amnesia c. flashbulb memory d. cue-dependent forgetting
The norm of social responsibility suggests that people will:
a. assume responsibility for helping their parents in old age b. help those who have helped them c. help those who need help d. help those who had helped them in the past e. assume responsibility for correcting past mistakes
Whose brain is most likely to have the most synapses?
A. Jerry, who is a newborn B. Elaine, who is 1 year old C. Kramer, who is 7 years old D. George, who is 14 years old
Elsa is a one-year-old infant. Her mother notices that while playing in the garden, Elsa often picks up tiny insects and worms by making a tight fist. A few months before, she had only been able to pat the insects and not pick them up as they were so tiny. This is an example of _____
A) a pincer grasp B) canalization C) an ulnar grasp D) habituation