Exam 7: Sensory and Perceptual Development

To assess whether infants see objects as continuous or discontinuous, researchers present babies with a display that includes an object, such as a rod, this is partly hidden by another object, such as a block. How do the researchers determine whether the infants see the hidden object as continuous or as two separate objects?

Which of the following sounds is most effective in soothing crying babies?

Discuss the evidence that supports the view that infants are born prepared to coordinate input from different sensory systems.

Based on research by Slater and colleagues (1990), babies can tell the difference between two different-sized cubes, even if the larger one is placed at a distance so that the retinal size of the two cubes is the same. These researchers

Which of the following examples is best described as sensation?

Recognition (e.g., "I've heard that song before") and identification (e.g., "That was Hey Jude") are part of

Baby Muriel has the capacity of choosing to look at patterned displays over non-patterned displays. What type of attention does this portray?

Research by Haith (1990) suggests that, at first, babies see parts of visual arrays, but with development they are able to put the parts together and see them as a whole. Haith's findings support

Describe the hearing abilities present at birth and in the first few months of life. Discuss how the hearing abilities of infants appear to prepare them for social interaction and the acquisition of speech.

Caitlin has been reading "The Cat in the Hat" to her fetus since she was 30 weeks pregnant. Which of the following statements most accurately describes how the baby will react once it is born?

Studies suggest that infants start to use attentional pop-out and visual search for selectively attending at __________.

What does current evidence suggest is the cause of the newborn's poor visual acuity?

Elizabeth has just given birth. The nurse suggests that she put Baby Adele on her stomach, close to her nipple. Suddenly, she sees Baby Adele attempting to reach for the nipple and to squirm towards it. This is an example of what?

What is intermodal perception? Discuss how auditory-visual intermodal perception may affect social interaction.

The fact that visual organization abilities are relatively late developing may be explained by

Based on the findings of Spelke and her colleagues, under which of the following conditions are 4-month-old infants most likely to conclude that the obstructed object is a single continuous object rather than two objects?

Head turning to sounds occurs at birth, disappears a month later, only to reappear at 3 or 4 months of age. This exemplifies

Compared to newborn boys circumcised with anesthesia, those circumcised without were found, 4 to 6 months later, to be __________ to the pain associated with vaccinations.

To date, research supports which of the following claims?

To assess the level of pain experienced by young children, which of the following indices may be most useful to health professionals?