Cognitive Development in Early Infancy Quiz

Infants typically start to babble around 2-3 months as part of early language development.

The Moro reflex, present in newborns, disappears around 4-6 months of age.

Vision is the least developed sense in newborn infants.

Stranger anxiety typically emerges in infants around the age of 4-6 months.

The crawling reflex is not present in newborn infants.

Crawling typically begins in infants around the age of 8-10 months.

Object permanence develops during Jean Piaget's sensorimotor stage of cognitive development.

Vygotsky's theory emphasizes the role of social interaction in shaping cognitive development.

Object permanence is the understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, heard, or touched in Piaget's theory.

Holophrastic speech is a language development milestone involving the use of one word to convey a whole phrase or sentence.

Conservation is the understanding, according to Piaget, that objects maintain their properties despite changes in shape or arrangement.

Industry vs. Inferiority is not a stage in Erik Erikson's psychosocial theory relevant to infancy.

The A-not-B error is the tendency of infants to search for a hidden object in the last place it was found rather than the new location.

Myelination is the process by which neurons are insulated, enabling faster neural impulse transmission.

Sensory integration is the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information.

The temporal lobe is primarily responsible for language processing and production in the brain.

Pragmatics is the ability to adapt one's language to fit the social context.