Exam 5: Perceptual and Motor Development

According to the information in your textbook,what recommendation do you think would be most effective in improving the physical fitness of elementary-school aged children?

Your neighbor has just accepted a coaching position for a children's soccer team.This is his first time as a coach,and he is not sure whether to be really tough on the children to make them better,like some of his former coaches,or whether to be a "nice guy" like some of his other coaches,who didn't seem to care about winning at all costs.What guidelines could you give him about what he can do to encourage the children to enjoy being on the team and to want to continue to play soccer?

Which parent should be most concerned about a possible hearing impairment?

Which of the following is TRUE of perception of faces in infants?

Adult coaches should

Interposition,texture gradient,relative size,and linear perspective all provide cues for

Research suggests that ADHD

Which of the following do infants use to determine which elements go together to form an object?

Combining the component skills of a complex motion to form a working whole is called

Newborn Nina will probably look longest at

After a stimulus is presented repeatedly,infants pay more attention to it.This increase in attention is called habituation.

Some cultures discourage motor development in order to protect infants and toddlers from harm by carrying them constantly.

__________ is the process by which we select information that will be processed further.

Your friend Shane has noticed that his 3-week-old daughter Fran seems to drink more from her bottle when it contains sugar water than when it contains formula.Shane thinks that he saw Fran lick her lips when she was given a bottle of sugar water.Shane thinks that he is crazy because he doesn't think that the senses are functioning in babies who are so young.What can you tell Shane about the sense of taste that might make him feel better?

Which of the following fine-motor skills is the latest to develop?

Information that is presented simultaneously to different sensory modes provides

Infants develop perceptual skills in conjunction with the development of motor skills.

Haley is looking at Bill.The two retinal images of Bill in Haley's eyes are nearly identical.This suggests that

Visual acuity assesses how

One-month-old Mari's grimace after tasting a substance suggests that what she tasted was