Exam 5: Perception, Action, and Learning in Infancy

To examine whether infants can perceive a difference between a square of uniform colour and a square with a pattern on it, a researcher displays the two squares side by side. The researcher records the number of seconds infants look at each square. This method is called the _____ technique.

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

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

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

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

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.

Seven-month-old Vivi is presented with a trapezoidal object that adults would perceive as a rectangle placed on a diagonal, with one side closer than the other side, similar to the window from the Yonas, Cleaves, and Pettersen study described in the text. During the first set of trials, a patch is placed over one of Vivi's eyes, and the object is presented in front of her. During the second set of trials, the patch is removed and the object is again presented. Researchers record Vivi's reaches toward the object. The MOST likely result will be that Vivi reaches

The sharpness of visual discrimination is called

The cue that is MOST important for object segregation is common

At what age can infants learn through instrumental conditioning?

_____ is an example of a scale error.

An infant randomly makes many vocalizations throughout the day. Some of her vocalizations elicit no response from her parents, but several elicit laughter and hugging from her parents. Eventually, she increases how frequently she makes those vocalizations in order to elicit laughter and hugs through which type of learning?

Of sensation and perception, _____ involve(s) the organization and interpretation of information.

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

_____ drives the other-race effect in infants.

Research by Meltzoff in which 18-month-olds observed either an adult or a mechanical device pull at two ends of a dumbbell demonstrated that children can learn by imitating what?

Current theorists emphasize that early motor development does NOT result from

The study by Langlois and colleagues discussed in the text in which infants interacted with a woman wearing either an attractive face mask or an unattractive face mask demonstrated that infants

Changes in the ability to perceive differences in stimuli that happen with experience are referred to as

An infant who is using social referencing would learn