Exam 5: Perception, Action, and Learning in Infancy

James has a disorder in which his two eyes do not line up in the same direction. Which disorder is this?

The development of _____ is an example of experience-expectant plasticity.

Many current theorists of motor development, including Esther Thelen, take the _____ approach.

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

By approximately what age can infants smoothly track slow-moving objects?

Binocular disparity results in the perception of depth through which process?

Which theme has been contentious within developmental psychology since the inception of the field?

The brains of 7-month-old infants process the locations at which other people are touched using the corresponding areas of their own

Current theorists emphasize that early motor development does NOT result from

Which statement about 3-month-old Isabella's vision is TRUE?

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 loud bang is a(n)

Dr. Jones has presented an infant with a succession of black and white paddles with increasingly narrow stripes and increasingly narrow gaps between them. He wants to determine when the infant can no longer distinguish between the striped paddles and a gray one. Dr. Jones is assessing the infant's

This form of depth perception emerges around 4 months of age and is complete within just a few weeks.

Which scenario is the BEST example of an infant's discovery of an affordance?

To examine whether infants can perceive a difference between two stimuli, Professor Thomas first shows one stimulus to the infant until he is no longer interested in the object. Professor Thomas then shows a new stimulus to the infant and records whether the infant becomes interested in the new stimulus. This method is called the _____ technique.

Baby Chiara learns that the sound of the door opening regularly comes before the sight of mail dropping from the mail slot to the floor. Baby Chiara has learned this through what type of learning?

Relative size is an example of which type of depth cue?

Newborns prefer which taste?

_____ is an example of a scale error.

Which statement BEST describes researchers' current view of young infants' ability to mentally represent objects?