The grasping rooting, and sucking reflexes of infants are best described as:

Related Mcqs:

1. Stimulation of the cheek will cause a newborn to begin making sucking responses. This illustrates the __________ reflex?

   A. Perkinjie
   B. Korsakoff
   C. startle
   D. rooting

2. Studies of monkeys raised with artificial mothers suggest that mother-infant emotional bonds result primarily from mother providing infants with:

   A. the opportunity to explore
   B. body contact
   C. appropriate schemas
   D. adequate nourishment

3. Learning theories explain attachment of infants to their parents in items of__________?

   A. Conditioning
   B. Observational learning
   C. The maturation of perceptual skills
   D. Cognitive development

4. The tendency of infants to bring all novel objects to their mouths is an example of which of the following Piagetian processes?

   A. sublimation
   B. accommodation
   C. primary circular reaction
   D. assimilation

5. Experiments demonstrate that infants register strongest preference for which of the following visual stimuli?

   A. plain, solid colors
   B. bright colors
   C. likenesses of human faces
   D. likenesses of animals and pets

6. The powerful survival impulse that leads human infants to seek closeness to their parents is called ___________________?

   A. attachment
   B. imprinting
   C. egocentrism
   D. conservation

7. When infants are placed in the middle of a visual cliff, they usually:

   A. remain still
   B. move to the shallow side of the apparatus
   C. move to the deep side of the apparatus
   D. approach their mothers when called, whether that requires moving to the shallow deep side

8. If you were to compare adult speech with the speech of infants under 6 months of age you should expect to find that:

   A. adults are capable of producing more phonemes than infants are
   B. adults and infants both use the same number of phenomes
   C. infants produce more phonemes than adults do
   D. adults and infants both use the same number of morphemes

9. The cephalocaudal trend in the motor development of children can be described simply as a:

   A. head-to-foot direction
   B. center-outward direction
   C. foot-to-head direction
   D. body-appendages direction

10. Jamil has a lack of interest in friends or lovers and experiences very little emotion. He can be described as having which of the following personality disorders?

    A. avoidant
    B. schizoid
    C. borderline
    D. paranoid