Infancy, Growth, Development and Maturation

Infancy development duration is considered as

• birth to two years

• birth to one year

• birth to three years

• none of the above

Mental representations of the world; conceptual framework a person uses to make sense of the world 

• Socialization 

• Surrogate

• Schemas

• Maturation

The adjustment of one’s schemas to include newly observed events and experiences

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

• Schemas

• Surrogate

The auditory perception is developed even before birth.

• True

• False

In what period infants are able to identify the direction of sounds & recognize familiar words.

• 0-3 months

• 3-6 months

• 6-9 months

• 9-12 months

Young infants are not attentive to high pitched feminine voices

• True

• False

Crawling starts at the age of

• 1-4 months

• 5-9 months

• 5-10 months

• 5-11 months

In what period infants become open to flavors such as salt and shows interest in others’ food?

• 0-3 months

• 3-6 months

• 6-9 months

• 9-12 months

Being able to understand that objects exist independently is called as

• Egocentrism

• Object permanence

• Object visibility

• Conservation

According to Piaget, infants do not have full understanding of object permanence until about 18 months of age

• True

• False