Exam 5: Perception, Action, and Learning in Infancy

An infant plays with a toy block in the dark, so he cannot see it. Later, he is shown a ball as well as the block. He realizes that it was the block, not the ball, that he played with in the dark through:

Of the following types of learning, which involves imitating the behavior of others?

Describe three examples of purposeful and goal- oriented movements of infants.

The integration of separate elements in a visual display into a single coherent pattern enables individuals to perceive a(n):

The closer an object is to us, the there is.

Newborns' bias toward is an underlying factor in their attraction to human faces.

An infant learning the association between tone of voice and facial expression is an example of:

Four-month-old infants respond more to a film_______ than to a film______ .

An infant randomly makes many vocalizations throughout the day. Some of her vocalizations elicit no response from her parents, but several elicit laughter and hugging from her parents. Eventually, she learns to make those vocalizations in order to elicit laughter and hugs through which type of learning?

Around 4 months of age infants develop _, the process by which the visual cortex combines differing neural signals, resulting in depth perception. Around 7 months of age infants become sensitive to depth cues, which can be perceived by one eye alone.

Which cue is most important for object segregation?

A researcher taking a dynamic-systems approach to motor development would be most likely to examine the impact of on the development of crawling.

The combining of information from two or more sensory systems is referred to as perception.

What best explains the fact that vision has been the predominant focus of research into perception?

The finding that today's infants are crawling later than infants born less than a generation ago is evidence for the effect of:

When reflexive, unlearned behavior becomes anticipatory in response to a recognized stimulus, has occurred.

Which group(s) of infants would know their own limitations if placed at the top of a steep incline?

The study by Langlois and colleagues in which infants interacted with a woman wearing either an attractive face mask or an unattractive face mask demonstrated which of the following?

The process of extracting from the environment elements that remain stable is referred to as:

Describe how experience is related to infants' judgments of their own motor abilities. Provide two detailed examples.