Exam 4: Infant Perception and Cognition

According to the core knowledge systems perspective, human infants are endowed with at least three core knowledge systems to represent and make inferences about relevant aspects of their surrounding environment. Explain these core knowledge systems and provide examples of each.

Dishabituation occurs when a new stimulus is presented that increases the level of responding.

The chemical senses (olfaction and taste) tend to develop early and are quite well developed shortly after birth.

Explain the concept of object permanence in young infants using Baillargeon's results from his work.

What was revealed in research conducted by Walton and her colleagues (1992) when 12- to 36-hr-old infants would vary their rate of sucking more to see a picture of their mother's face than that of another woman?

Why did Kuhl (2007) describe young infants as "citizens of the world?"

Discuss the arguments against core knowledge and provide examples.

What is the concept known as whereby newborns move their heads and eyes in the direction of a sound, as if they wish to see what all the noise is about?

Infants display a degree of size and shape constancy, which indicates human infants are well prepared at birth for making sense of physical objects.

Explain development of vision in the newborn.

Six-month-old infants cannot tell the difference between quantities larger than four.

Compared to normally treated preterm babies very small preterm infants who receive extra tactile stimulation

Explain and support the notion that 5-month-old babies' concept of numerosity allows them to keep track of small changes in quantities, a behavior that looks like an understanding of how to add and subtract.

According to Baillargeon, infants possess an innate idea called the principle of persistence, which is defined as objects not only exist continuously and remain cohesive, they also retain their individual properties.

Spatiotemporal characteristics may play a central role in defining objects to sound infants, with shape and color being unimportant.

What was revealed according to research by Morton and Johnson (1991) among other various studies regarding the development of face processing?

According to many research studies, infants enter the world with some auditory biases. Which one of the following was not identified in the textbook as one of the auditory biases?

Which of the following is the definition of the Goldilocks effect?

According to the text, how is schema defined?

According to the core knowledge systems perspective, which of the following is not one of the systems to represent and make inferences about relevant aspects of their surrounding environment?