Exam 5: Perception, Action, and Learning in Infancy

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

Describe the process by which an infant might learn to make his siblings laugh through (a) instrumental conditioning and (b) observational learning.

Parents who are concerned about the habituation effect of their children watching violent acts on television are worried that their children will

Infant Greta hears a bell that she cannot see and immediately turns toward the sound. This is an indication that Greta has which ability?

Explain some of the different reflexes that are present at birth and provide an example of each one you describe. Make sure to highlight which reflexes have adaptive significance and which do not.

An infant learns a new way to climb up on the living room sofa by watching his older sibling through which type of learning?

Researchers are able to assess infants' _____ using the preferential-looking method.

Infants can detect changes in music that adults cannot. This phenomenon is thought to demonstrate

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

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

Scale errors are thought to be a result of young children's

Which form of learning is probably the simplest?

When two segments always move together in the same direction and at the same speed, _____ has occurred.

_____ indicates learning through classical conditioning.

Regarding infants' perception of pictures, infants do NOT

Of sensation and perception, _____ involve(s) the processing of basic information by the receptors in the eyes, ears, and skin as well as the brain.

The closer an object is to a person, the _____ there is.

Two infants of different ages, Diego and Hannah, are tested with the preferential-looking technique to determine their visual acuity. A series of black and white striped patterns are presented individually next to a grey square. Diego can distinguish stripes that are narrower than the stripes Hannah can distinguish. Compared with Hannah, Diego has

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

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