Exam 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood

An experimenter finds that 3-month-old Ava is better able to discriminate faces when seeing the faces paired with their talking voices compared to seeing the faces alone. This is evidence in support of the _______ hypothesis.

What is a way that researchers infer that an infant or child is developing social cognitive understanding?

Which statement best describes the information processing view of cognitive development?

Fifteen-month-old Keisha watches her caregiver try to move a stack of blocks. But, the caregiver accidentally knocks the stack of blocks over. Keisha then tries to move the stack of blocks but does not try to knock them over. This suggests that Keisha

Which statement about the results of research on developmental cascades is most accurate?

The ability of an infant to re-enact an action that they observed earlier is called

Twelve-month-old Reese points at a puppy that has just entered the room. The caregiver interacts with Reese but does not look at the puppy. Reese continues to point persistently at the puppy. Researchers interpret such behavior as indicating that Reese

_______ is the degree to which something is attractive or noticeable to an infant.

How would you design an experiment to investigate an infant's understanding of others' false beliefs?

Five-month-old Shaheen does not look longer when he sees an object "floating" in air without support. This would refute a claim that he

Explain how developmental systems theorists demonstrate that infants' performance on A-not-B tasks is not necessarily the result of the infants' understanding of object permanence.

Findings that infants do not show the same abilities in selective attention as seen at later points in development may

List and briefly describe the types of studies researchers use to study infants' memory?

Which is an example of behavior demonstrating means-end analysis?

In a cross-cultural study, researchers taught 15- to 18-month-old U.S. and Mayan infants how to use a novel object either by showing the object being used or showing the object being used while providing instruction. Whereas the U.S. infants were better able to imitate the action when they had some instruction compared to when they simply observed the action, the Mayan infants performed equally well with and without instruction. What is a possible conclusion that can be drawn from this result?

Infant Ekaterina spends an hour each day watching videos on her tablet. However, she has trouble relating what she sees on the screen to the real world. According to research, what can Ekaterina's parents do to help her to better interpret and apply what she sees on the screen to the real world?

A researcher who believes that infants are hardwired to understand certain concepts such as object permanence or gravity is most likely a proponent of

Researchers have used conjugate mobile experiments to study infants'

Which statement best describes the role of cultural context in infant cognitive development?

What is best definition of habituation, as used in the context of infant cognitive development?