Exam 5: Perception, Action, and Learning in Infancy

Habituation to a stimulus and increased response to a novel stimulus does NOT indicate

Piaget developed his concept of object permanence by observing young

Which statement about self-locomotion is NOT true?

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

The result that infants of depressed mothers tend to smile less than do other infants is thought to be caused, at least in part, by

Beginning at what age do infants use common movement as a cue for object segregation?

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.

Research using shallow and steep inclines has NOT demonstrated that

Four-month-old infants respond more to a film _____ than to a film _____.

The decrease in response to repeated presentation of the same stimulus is referred to as

Active learning is an important aspect of which theories of cognitive development?

Which statement about the development of reaching is NOT true?

Describe the visual abilities of newborn infants and research methodologies used to study infant vision development.

To elicit _____, the auditory syllable ba is dubbed onto a video of a person speaking the syllable ga. Someone watching this will hear the syllabus da.

Infants as young as _____ look longer at visual displays in which dimensions in each modality are congruent.

Cousins Bailey, Sofia, and Zola are playing at an indoor baby gym. Bailey has recently begun to crawl, Sofia has been crawling for a while, and Zola has recently begun to walk. The three cousins' attention is suddenly grabbed by the pleasing sounds of a familiar toy that has rolled down a too-steep incline. Which cousin is likely to attempt to go down the incline?

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?

When a child tries to pick up an object from a 2D representation, they are demonstrating a _____ error.

Movement is an important cue for

Bree is an 11-month-old baby girl who insists on trying to walk in order to explore and navigate her environment. However, she is not very good at walking and does much better at crawling. Yet she refuses to crawl. This demonstrates the vital role of