One-month-old babies, as parents are well aware, have an unlearned but highly effective form of ...

One-month-old babies, as parents are well aware, have an unlearned but highly effective form of verbal expression that is _____.
 
  A) crying
  B) babbling
  C) cooing
  D) humming

Question 2

_____, such as cooing and babbling, do not represent objects or actions, so infant crying is not a primitive form of language.
 
  A) Receptive skills
  B) Nonverbal cues
  C) Prelinguistic vocalizations
  D) Linguistic vocalizations

Question 3

Which of the following infants is illustrating the presence of visual recognition memory?
 
  A) Janet laughs loudly when her mother tickles her.
  B) Percy wriggles his toes when he wants his mother to pick him up and often cries if he is not picked.
  C) Pierce spends more time looking at the picture of a new person rather than the familiar picture of his mother.
  D) Angelica stacks blocks on top of each other to make a tower.

Question 4

According to research by Rose and her colleagues, it was shown that, from age to age, individual differences in capacity for visual recognition memory:
 
  A) are stable.
  B) increase dramatically.
  C) increase gradually.
  D) decrease dramatically.

Question 5

According to research by Susan Rose and her colleagues, higher visual recognition scores in infancy are related to:
 
  A) attention deficit disorder in later childhood.
  B) poorer memory skills in later childhood.
  C) higher emotional quotient scores in later childhood.
  D) higher IQ scores in later childhood.

Question 6

A child is shown two objects for 20 seconds. After this, one of the objects is replaced and the infant spends more time looking at the new object. Which of the following processes does this represent?
 
  A) Visual recognition memory
  B) Canalization
  C) Centration
  D) Deferred imitation