Exam 5: Perception, Action, and Learning in Infancy

Five-month-old Judy sees a novel sight-flowers arranged in a vase. The MOST important cue that would help Judy know whether she is seeing a single object or multiple objects is

Newborns' bias toward _____ is an underlying factor in their attraction to human faces.

What is perceptual narrowing? Provide at least one example of perceptual narrowing, and explain its benefit.

Piaget's observation that young infants do not manually search for hidden objects

When Shelly picks up her sleeping baby quickly, her baby throws back his head and expends his arms and then rapidly draws them in. Her baby is demonstrating the _____ reflex.

A recent study by Cole and colleagues found that infants' walking patterns are affected by

_____ is indicative of a possible neurological problem.

A study examining infants' response to a breast pad worn by their own mother versus one worn by another woman demonstrated that 2-week-old infants

Statistical learning involves

The relationship between early musical experiences and the development of language and literacy is related to

Research by Baillargeon in which 4½-month-old infants were shown a screen that apparently rotated through a box and a screen that rotated up and stopped at the top of the box demonstrated that infants

Which factor is involved in active learning?

Research on the music perception of infants has demonstrated that, with experience, humans

Which activity is NOT an example of self-locomotion?

Individual differences in motor maturity at _____ months of age predicts children's academic achievement at the age of 14 years.

Learning the relations between one's own behavior and its consequences is

Who will fare worse at determining the spatial location of a sound?

Pictorial cues are also referred to as _____ depth cues.

The development of _____ is a classic example of experience-expectant plasticity.

The change in retinal image size as a moving object gets closer, causing more and more of the background to be occluded, is referred to as