Exam 5: Perception, Action, and Learning in Infancy

At what age can infants learn through instrumental conditioning?

This is a dramatic demonstration of auditory-visual blending.

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

Recent research has concluded that infants learn more when they choose what they learn about. This supports the notion of

When an infant looks longer at one of two stimuli presented side by side, researchers can infer that the infant

These early researchers concluded that infants' motor development was governed by brain maturation.

Research by Baillargeon in which infants looked longer at a screen that rotated 180 degrees than at a screen that rotated up and stopped at the top of a box used the _____ paradigm in the test of whether the infants were able to mentally represent the box.

Which form of learning is probably the simplest?

The fact that experience can lead infants to become less sensitive to distinctions that they could make at earlier stages in development has been demonstrated in all of these domains EXCEPT

The use of preferential looking to measure infants' visual acuity draws from research demonstrating that infants consistently prefer to look at _____ over _____.

An infant's sibling always jumps off his bed with a loud bang when he wakes up from his nap. He then comes downstairs and greets the infant with a tickle, making the infant laugh and cough reflexively. Eventually, the infant begins to laugh and cough reflexively when he hears the bang, even before he sees his brother. In this scenario, the laugh and cough in response to the bang are a(n)

The developmental maturity of infants' cones contributes to their

Perceptual constancy enables a baby to perceive

_____ drives the other-race effect in infants.

A 6-month-old infant watches as his sister hides behind a door. While the infant is turned away from his sister for a moment, the sister moves from behind the door and hides under a bed. Suddenly, the wind pushes the partially open door even farther open, until it touches the wall. The 6-month-old is MOST likely to

Two infants of different ages, Diego and Hannah, are tested with the preferential-looking technique to determine their visual acuity. A series of black-and-white-striped patterns are presented individually next to a gray square. Diego can distinguish stripes that are narrower than the stripes Hannah can distinguish. Compared with Hannah, Diego has

Researchers are able to assess infants' _____ using the preferential-looking method.

When young infants (younger than 2 months) look at complex shapes or pictures, they tend to look at

When two segments always move together in the same direction and at the same speed, _____ has occurred.

Charlie is 3 months old and consistently swipes clumsily toward the general area of objects he sees. He is engaged in