Exam 5: Perception, Action, and Learning in Infancy

Light-sensitive neurons located in the central region of the retina are referred to as:

Describe the current understanding of infants' development of object permanence, including the commonly made A-not-B error. Include two examples of research that examines this issue. Explain the rationale behind the studies as well as the conclusions drawn from them.

When 5-month-old infants are shown a film of moving points of light, they:

_________is the first concept to develop as infants learn about objects being able or not being able to support each other.

The research by Thelen in which infants were partially immersed in a tank of water demonstrated to be responsible for the disappearance of the stepping reflex.

The "visual cliff" has been used to evaluate:

Research in which 12- and 15-month-old infants were introduced to a faceless, eyeless blob suggested that infants are willing to attribute intentions and goals to:

How can a developmental psychologist test an infant's ability to mentally represent objects? Give three examples of tasks and discuss what it would mean if the infant could or could not do the tasks.

Baillargeon and her colleagues concluded from their research that 4-month-old infants can mentally represent objects that are out of view. Describe in detail how they arrived at this conclusion based on the finding that infants looked longer at a screen rotating its full 180 degrees than they did at a screen rotating only as far as a hidden block and then stopping.

Relative size is an example of which of the following types of depth cues?

What did research by Baillargeon examining infants' attention to a screen that rotated into the space occupied by hidden objects that were either tall or short demonstrate about infants' thinking about objects?

Describe the dynamic-systems point of view. Discuss how this approach might influence a researcher's thinking about the development of crawling.

The violation-of-expectancy procedure is founded on the expectation that infants:

Describe two ways in which the development of perception is continuous and two ways in which it is discontinuous.

To examine whether infants can perceive a difference between two stimuli, a researcher first shows one stimulus to the infant until she becomes disinterested. The researcher then shows the other stimulus to the infant and records whether the infant becomes interested in the new stimulus. This method is called the:

At 6 months Ken has learned that if he presses a button on his toy phone it will play a song. This is an example of:

Which of the following statements about the association between speed of habituation in infancy and general cognitive ability is true?

Perceptual constancy enables a baby to:

Understanding that the behavior of others is purposive and goal-directed is an aspect of:

Baby Ethan is sitting outdoors in his stroller while his parents are cooking hamburgers. Give three examples of the sensations that Ethan is experiencing and three examples of his perceptions.