Exam 5: A: Perceptual and Motor Development

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

Newborns don't seem to feel pain.

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

More girls than boys are diagnosed with ADHD.

When a stimulus, such as a tone, is presented to an infant over and over again, the infant will eventually habituate to the tone.

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

Very young infants do not react differently to faces versus non-faces.

Children with ADHD may be unusually energetic, fidgety, and unable to keep still.

Babies who are one and a half months old who cannot crawl are afraid when they are placed on the deep side of the visual cliff.

One sign of possible hearing impairment is that an eight- or nine-month-old does not respond to his/her name.

Almost all school children can meet fitness standards on fitness tests.

Older preschoolers show more focused attention than do younger preschoolers.

By seven or eight months, most babies can stand with help.

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

When objects are near, greater disparity in retinal images occurs.

When texture gradient is used to infer depth, people judge blurred objects to be near.

Parents should be concerned about their baby's hearing if the baby has repeated ear infections.

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

Most babies take their first steps at 24 months.

By four months of age, most babies can sit upright with support.