Exam 5: Seeing, Thinking, and Doing in Infancy

This form of depth perception emerges around 4 months of age and is complete within just a few weeks.

Baby Chiara learns that the sound of the door opening regularly comes before the sight of mail dropping from the mail slot to the floor. Baby Chiara has learned this through what type of learning?

Which groups of infants would know their own limitations if placed at the top of a steep incline?

Five-month-old Judy sees a novel sight of flowers arranged in a vase. The MOST important cue that would help Judy know whether she is seeing a single object or multiple objects is:

To examine whether infants can perceive a difference between two stimuli, a researcher first shows one stimulus to the infant until she becomes disinterested. The researcher then shows the other stimulus to the infant and records whether the infant becomes interested in the new stimulus. This method is called the _____ technique.

Infant pre-reaching movements generally emerge before _____ months of age.

What is perceptual narrowing? Provide at least one example of perceptual narrowing, and explain its benefit.

The study in which infants were first presented with a cube and then were presented with the same cube and a larger cube that was placed farther away demonstrated that infants:

Perceptual constancy enables a baby to perceive:

The types of patterns that infants appear to prefer are those:

To elicit _____, the auditory syllable ba is dubbed onto a video of a person speaking the syllable ga. Someone watching this will hear the syllabus da.

Research by Meltzoff and colleagues indicates that very young children are able to learn from what kinds of models?

Which scenario is the BEST example of an infant's discovery of an affordance?

Relative size is an example of which type of depth cue?

Which statement about 3-month-old Isabella's vision is TRUE?

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

Research examining infants' sitting skills and their 3-D object completion skills suggests that:

Which statement BEST describes researchers' current view of young infants' ability to mentally represent objects?

Binocular disparity results in the perception of depth through which process?

_____ was first discovered by Pavlov in his research with dogs.