Exam 5: Seeing, Thinking, and Doing in Infancy

Dr. Jones has presented an infant a succession of black and white paddles with increasingly narrow stripes and increasingly narrow gaps between them. He wants to determine when the infant can no longer distinguish between the striped paddles and a gray one. Dr. Jones is assessing the infant's:

Which statement about the association between speed of habituation in infancy and general cognitive ability is TRUE?

The other race effect refers to:

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

Bree is an 11-month-old baby girl who insists on trying to walk in order to explore and navigate her environment. However, she is not very good at walking and does much better at crawling. Yet she refuses to crawl. This demonstrates the vital role of:

An affordance is a(n):

Among infant-directed speech, adult-directed speech, infant-directed singing, and adult-directed singing, 6-month-old infants show a preference for:

How clearly an individual can see is referred to as his visual:

Nine-month-old Jessie observes an irregularly shaped object placed approximately halfway off the edge of a surface. Adults who view this scene would be surprised that the object does not fall, since its larger side is off the surface. Jessie:

A father puts his 5-month-old infant in his crib and then leaves the room. With which statement would Piaget be MOST likely to agree?

Which debate has been contentious within developmental psychology for at least 2000 years?

Newborns' bias toward _____ is an underlying factor in their attraction to human faces.

Which statement about the development of an auditory spatial map is NOT true?

The process by which the visual cortex combines the differing neural signals caused by binocular disparity, resulting in depth perception, is called:

Cousins Bailey, Sofia, and Zola are playing at an indoor baby gym. Bailey has recently begun to crawl, Sofia has been crawling for a while, and Zola has recently begun to walk. The three cousins' attention is suddenly grabbed by the pleasing sounds of a familiar toy that has rolled down a too-steep incline. Which of the cousins is likely to attempt to go down the incline?

When an infant looks longer at one of two stimuli presented side by side, researchers can infer that the infant:

The idea that we learn by doing is called:

The development of _____ is a classic example of experience-expectant plasticity.

The combining of information from two or more sensory systems is referred to as _____ perception.

Binocular disparity results from: