Chapter 1: Beginnings of Communication

TRUE/FALSE

1. Many mothers notice a definite fetal response to environmental sounds during the third trimester of pregnancy.

ANS:  T                    PTS:   1                    DIF:    Easy

2. It is believed that babies are able to hear maternal speech sounds before birth.

ANS:  T                    PTS:   1                    DIF:    Easy

3. It is important that parents believe their babies may try to imitate parent actions or sounds as early as the second or third month of age.

ANS:  T                    PTS:   1                    DIF:    Easy

4. By age seven to twelve months, infants usually respond to their own name.

ANS:  T                    PTS:   1                    DIF:    Easy

5. By the age of six months, infants react to changes in their adult caregivers’ tone of voice.

ANS:  T                    PTS:   1                    DIF:    Easy

6. Mothers who know more about what abilities their infants possess at any given age are usually more skilled at providing interactions and activities that might promote growth.

ANS:  T                    PTS:   1                    DIF:    Easy

7. Allowing babies to explore their environment safely is a necessary condition of good care.

ANS:  T                    PTS:   1                    DIF:    Easy

8. An infant’s emotional well being is usually not observable before its first birthday.

ANS:  F                    PTS:   1                    DIF:    Easy

9. At birth, each infant’s brain has an equal number of neurons and synapses.

ANS:  F                    PTS:   1                    DIF:    Easy

10. The human brain can be accurately described as a flexible, sensitive, and plastic part of the human central nervous system.

ANS:  T                    PTS:   1                    DIF:    Easy