Exam 5: Motor, Sensory, and Perceptual Development

List and briefly describe three infant reflexes.

About _____ newborns are deaf, and ______ newborns have some level of hearing problems.

If infants are able to engage in intermodal perception, this means they are able to

Baby Jacci, who is 2 days old, is shown four drawings: a blue square, a white oval, a drawing of a face, and a bright red circle. Based on Fantz's work, which will she probably prefer to look at?

DeCasper and Spence (1986) measured babies' sucking rates as they listened to a story they had heard in the womb (The Cat in the Hat) and to a story they had not heard (The King, the Mice, and the Cheese). The study concluded that

When a 2-day-old infant consistently shows a visual preference for a bull's-eye pattern over a checkerboard pattern, we know that the infant

At what age is an infant able to distinguish male from female faces and discriminate between ethnic groups?

Which of the following methods should Dr. Kim use if she wants to determine whether infants can distinguish one stimulus from another?

Brent's biological functions are beginning to decline. How old is he?

Baby Mary recognizes the table as in the same shape, even though the table appears in different shapes depending on the angle from which it is observed. This is an example of

Compared to younger drivers, older drivers

Briefly explain the concept of "affordances."

Which taste preference develops at about 4 months of age?

Infants are likely to reach motor milestones at different ages depending on the culture. This is probably due to

A program that has been shown to reduce at-fault accidents in older adults by more than 40 percent is:

Stella has just returned from the doctor and was told she has cloudy areas in the lenses of her eyes. Stella has