Exam Preview for 31145: Growing a Child's Auditory Brain April 12,

Growing a Child's Auditory Brain

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1. Infants and children need the desired signal to be _________ in order to receive intelligible speech. Equal to background noise Twice as loud as background noise Five times as loud as background noise Ten times as loud as background noise
2. According to the Hart and Risley study, how many "people-spoken words" have typical children from professional families heard by 4 years of age? 52 million 45 million 26 million 13 million
3. The meaning of sound occurs in the ______. brain ear doorway vibration
4. What percent of waking hours, by age 18, do children spend in school? 13.36% 23.36% 33.36% 43.36%
5. Reading aloud to infants, toddlers and young children is extremely important because: Exposure to storybooks is the biggest factor in a preschooler's vocabulary. More parent-child conversations occur during read-alouds than during any other activity. Children who receive read-alouds show gains of more than twice as many new words. All of the above
6. What percentage of parents read to their young children, daily? 20% 40% 60% 80%
7. Spoken language/music develops from________. Hearing Reading Writing Academics
8. What do human beings lack Eyelids Synaptic Connections Neurons Earlids
9. Infants exhibited more altruistic behavior towards the experimenter when they were: Bounced to a musical rhythm out of synchrony Bounced to a musical rhythm in synchrony Fed a bottle while listening to songs Wrapped tightly while listening to songs
10. When selecting songs, parents should look for: Traditional rhymes Action songs Nursery rhymes All of the above