A course confined to the first three years has a specific difficulty: the evidence comes almost entirely from clever laboratory procedures, because the participants cannot tell you anything. Infancy: Development from Birth to Age 3, 2nd Edition by Dana Gross asks students to hold the finding and the method together — habituation, preferential looking, the visual cliff, the Strange Situation — and exams reward exactly that pairing. Students who revise only the developmental milestones can usually say when something appears but not how anyone established it, and that is where marks are lost.
Why this test bank helps
Choosing the right age range is a small part of the answer; explaining what the infant’s behavior demonstrated, and what a different result would have meant, is the part that carries weight. Every question here is followed by a written rationale that connects the finding to the procedure that produced it and to the theoretical claim it supports, so that scenario items about an unfamiliar study become approachable rather than intimidating.
What’s inside
- Questions organized chapter by chapter, so each week of reading maps onto a defined block of practice.
- Multiple choice, true/false, matching and short-answer items, including method-focused questions.
- A written rationale under every question, linking the answer to the study or theory behind it.
- Deliberate emphasis on research methods with infants and on the cultural context of caregiving.
- One organized PDF, ready to download the moment checkout completes.
Topics covered
- Theories and methods in infancy research — habituation, preferential looking, longitudinal designs and their limits.
- Prenatal development and birth — the periods of gestation, teratogens, prematurity and newborn assessment.
- Newborn capacities — reflexes, sleep and arousal states, crying, and early sensory and perceptual abilities.
- Brain and motor development — synaptic growth and pruning, experience-expectant plasticity, reaching, sitting and walking.
- Cognitive development — sensorimotor substages, object permanence and the A-not-B error, early memory and categorization.
- Language emergence — speech perception, babbling, joint attention, first words and the beginnings of grammar.
- Emotion, temperament and attachment — social smiling, stranger wariness, temperament dimensions and attachment classifications.
- Social contexts of infancy — parenting, non-parental child care, family circumstances and cultural variation in caregiving.
Who it’s for
Undergraduates in an infancy, infant development or birth-to-three course using this edition — psychology and human development majors, plus early childhood education, nursing and social work students who need the developmental science behind practice with very young children.
How to use it (the right way)
Read the chapter and its research boxes before testing yourself; questions on infancy assume you can already recall the procedure, not only the result. Then attempt a block closed-book, flag any item where you knew the milestone but not the evidence, and read every rationale. This is a study aid. Use it in line with your institution’s academic-integrity policy — for preparation and self-testing, never as a substitute for the coursework or as material taken into a graded assessment.
Sample question (shows the format — your download contains the full set)
Q. A 9-month-old watches a toy hidden under cloth A several times and retrieves it each time. The toy is then hidden under cloth B in full view, and the infant still reaches to A. This behavior is best described as:
- A. Deferred imitation
- B. The A-not-B error
- C. Stranger wariness
- D. Habituation to the hiding cloth
Answer: B. The A-not-B error is the classic sensorimotor finding that infants around 8 to 12 months search where an object was previously found rather than where they just saw it hidden, indicating an incomplete grasp of object permanence. A involves reproducing an action after a delay, which is not what is being measured. C describes a social-emotional response to unfamiliar people. D refers to declining attention to a repeated stimulus, whereas the infant here is actively searching.
Edition & format
- Matches: Infancy: Development from Birth to Age 3, 2nd Edition, by Dana Gross (ISBN 9780205734191).
- Format: Digital PDF, delivered instantly after checkout.
- Access: Lifetime — re-download from your account whenever you need it.
Chapter order and numbering change between editions. Please confirm the edition and ISBN above match the book your course assigned before you buy.
Frequently asked questions
Is this the current edition? This set is prepared against the 2nd Edition specifically. If your syllabus names a different edition, choose that listing instead, because chapter coverage shifts between editions.
How do I receive it? The download appears on your order confirmation page and in your account as soon as checkout completes. Nothing is shipped and there is no waiting period.
Do all the questions include rationales? Yes. Every item carries a written explanation of the reasoning behind the answer, which is the part that turns checking into studying.
Is using a test bank allowed? As a study aid it works like any other practice resource. Follow your institution’s academic-integrity policy, and never take the material into a graded assessment.
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