Exam 5: Perceptual and Motor Development

Coordinated movements of the muscles and limbs are referred to as sensory and perceptual processes.

Allan wants to know what kind of sounds his newborn son can hear the best.What could you tell him about infant auditory capabilities?

Children typically step spontaneously around 10 months of age.

A preference for one hand over the other emerges by the first birthday.

When perceiving objects,infants tend to

ADHD is caused by eating too much sugar.

Combining component motor skills in proper sequence into a coherent,working whole is called differentiation.

Suzanne wants her children to be more active.What advice can you give her?

The depth cue known as motion parallax refers to the fact that moving objects that are farther away move across our visual field faster than those nearby.

Frankie is a new mother and someone just brought her newborn a mobile that has many colours.Frankie's newborn will be able to perceive the colours just as well as Frankie herself can right after birth.

Your friend Carter is concerned that his daughter is not crawling at eight months even though the books say she should be.He asks you about it,indicating they've done everything "by the books" including always putting his daughter "back-to-sleep." He wonders if her late crawling will have long-term developmental consequences.What would you tell him?

Infants' auditory thresholds are

Infants are more likely to detect differences in an adult's emotional expression,when information is presented using

When Roy first received a new toy,he played with it all the time.The longer he had it,the less he played with it.This change in Roy's behaviour is an example of

Moving the legs alternately while transferring body weight from one foot to the other is an essential element of walking.

Infants best hear sounds with pitches that are in the range of human speech.

Jared has typical visual acuity for a newborn.He can see at 6 metres what his father,who has normal vision,can see at ________ metres.

When can infants usually reach for objects?

The cues for balance come from the eyes,not from the inner ears.

Newborns don't seem to feel pain.