Exam 5: Perception, Action, and Learning in Infancy

A researcher taking a dynamic-systems approach to motor development would be MOST likely to examine the impact of _____ on the development of crawling.

Experience shapes preference for

When comparing how young children learn from in-person interactions and noncontingent interactions, which statement is TRUE?

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

Research conducted by Esther Thelen supported which theoretical perspective?

Dr. Jones has presented an infant with a succession of black and white paddles with increasingly narrow stripes and increasingly narrow gaps between them. He wants to determine when the infant can no longer distinguish between the striped paddles and a grey one. Dr. Jones is assessing the infant's

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

Which activity is NOT an example of self-locomotion?

_____ is indicative of a possible neurological problem.

By what age does a developing child's visual acuity approach that of adults?

Pictorial cues are also referred to as _____ depth cues.

Research by Hannon and Trehub on North American infants as well as North American and Balkan adults demonstrated that _____ perceived changes in simple rhythms, and _____ perceived changes in complex rhythms.

The preferential-looking method enables researchers to assess

Which of the following BEST describes what an affordance is?

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

Rebecca suffers from strabismus and as an adult experiences pervasive challenges in binocular vision. By what age could she have received treatment that would have been effective in treating the disorder?

This is a reward that reliably follows a behaviour and increases the likelihood that the behaviour will be repeated.

Research demonstrating that young infants reach for objects in the dark is evidence of their

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

Before the age of 4 months, which type of exploration of the environment is MOST common?