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_______________ skills refer to coordinated movements of the muscles and limbs.

​Marcus wants to know whether or not his daughter, Rebekah, can perceive different distances and depths. He wants to fashion a simple experiment to make this conclusion. Based on the work of Gibson and Walk, what sort of contraption could he build to test Rebekah’s depth perception?

Describe two kinetic cues and two pictorial cues that are used in depth perception.

In experience-_______________ growth, the wiring of the brain is organized by experiences that are common to most humans.

​When children are playing by themselves but are watching each other while they do so, they are engaging in _______________ play.

​Flannery is only a few years old, and she likes to do puzzles. As she snaps the pieces together, she can be heard saying things like, “This one goes here,” and “No, that doesn’t fit!” Flannery’s verbalizations are an example of ____ speech.

​When a child, usually around six months of age, produces vowel-consonant combinations that approximate real speech, she is ____.

​Your textbook notes the following three key concepts in biology. For each one, provide a potential real-life example illustrating each of these principles:  “Heredity and environment interact dynamically throughout development.”  “Genes can influence the kind of environment to which a person is exposed.”  “Environmental influences typically make children within a family different.”

Visual expansion and motion parallax are called kinetic cues because they both involve _______________ to help one estimate depth.

​If you are checking on a sleeping infant with another person and you want to say something to them without waking up the child, which type of voice would be the worst choice to speak in?