Exam 5: Perception, Action, and Learning in Infancy

Samantha is watching a children's television program and tries to pass an object to the character through the screen. She is demonstrating a _____ error.

Of sensation and perception, _____ involve(s) the processing of basic information by the receptors in the eyes, ears, and skin as well as the brain.

The study in which infants were first presented with a cube and then were presented with the same cube and a larger cube that was placed farther away demonstrated that infants

Young children who are given the opportunity for increased self-directed visual experiences also experience a(n)

Regarding infants' perception of pictures, infants do NOT

The types of patterns that infants appear to prefer are those

Which depth perception cue is the LAST to develop?

Perceptual learning is necessary for

Infant Greta hears a bell that she cannot see and immediately turns toward the sound. This is an indication that Greta has which ability?

Before the age of 4 months, which type of exploration of the environment is MOST common?

By _____, toddlers are as good at learning labels from objects via video chat as they are from in-person interactions.

Fixed patterns of action that occur in response to particular stimulation are called

When an infant turns her head and opens her mouth in the direction of a touch, she is demonstrating the _____ reflex.

Optical expansion is a cue used to perceive

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 increases how frequently she makes those vocalizations in order to elicit laughter and hugs through which type of learning?

The closer an object is to a person, the _____ there is.

Provide a detailed description of how researchers have examined 4-month-old infants' auditory-visual intermodal perception, and discuss the results of these studies.

Which of the following best describes what an affordance is?

Describe the process by which an infant might learn to make his siblings laugh through (a) instrumental conditioning and (b) observational learning.

Binocular disparity results from