Exam 5: A: Perceptual and Motor Development

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

Most infants cannot coordinate the motions of their hands until they are 12 months old.

Le Grand, Mondloch, Maurer, & Brent (2001) found that early visual experience is necessary for the normal development of face processing.

ADHD is caused by eating too much sugar.

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

Children develop better skills when their coaches emphasize winning.

Young infants cannot use motion to define objects.

Paying attention is all about focusing attention on the target task.

Children spend nearly half of their time in physical education classes standing around rather than being active.

Infants can differentiate sour, salty, bitter, and sweet tastes.

Most one-year-olds use spoons like adults do.

Meningitis is the leading cause of hearing impairment in newborns.

ADHD is often treated with stimulant drugs.

Researchers often measure an infant's heart rate, facial expression, or head movements to see if the infant responds differently to two different stimuli.

When interposition is used to infer depth, people judge partially obscured objects as more distant.

When relative size is used to infer depth, people judge smaller objects as closer.

Young babies cannot use odour to identify their mothers' breast milk.

Young infants group features together when they are the same colour.

Sports can give children an opportunity to learn important social skills, such as how to work effectively in a group.

By four months, babies have mastered size constancy, brightness constancy, colour constancy, and shape constancy.