Question 1

If ________ does not occur when fixations shift between near and far objects,one sees double objects.

Accepted Answer

A)   visual accommodation
B)   smooth visual pursuit
C)   vergence
D)   visual acuity C

Question 2

Mervyn pulled out a red block from his pocket and showed it to his four-month-old daughter,Jennifer,a number of times.Jennifer looked at it less and less each time.Then Mervyn pulled out a blue block.If Jennifer showed recovery from habituation,we would expect that she

Accepted Answer

A)   looked about the same length of time at the blue block as she looked at the red block the last time it was shown to her.
B)   looked longer at the blue block than at the red block the last time it was shown to her.
C)   smiled at the blue block more than at the red block because she recognized it as something new.
D)   smiled at the blue block less than at the red block because she recognized it as something new. B

Question 3

Statistical learning emphasizes that associations are formed because some events occur in a statistically predictable order.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 4

Suze avoids reaching across a gap,but she readily attempts to crawl across it,indicating that she needs to relearn

Accepted Answer

A)   sensory safety.
B)   motor control.
C)   depth perception.
D)   kinetic cues.

Question 5

Perceptual experience plays an especially critical role in the developing ability to discriminate and distinguish

Accepted Answer

A)   faces.
B)   music.
C)   round objects.
D)   animals.

Question 6

Infants need to learn to coordinate their perception of depth with safe actions for negotiating their surroundings as

Accepted Answer

A)   they near one year of age.
B)   each new postural and motor ability is learned.
C)   their depth perception develops and matures.
D)   each eye develops fully.

Question 7

The taste preferences seen in the newborn

Accepted Answer

A)   are really smell preferences,since taste is not present at birth.
B)   are likely to change as the brain reaches its final stages of maturity.
C)   can be modified by experience.
D)   will remain unchanged throughout life.

Question 8

What is perceptual learning? Who developed this theory?

Accepted Answer

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Question 9

Macy is trying to locate her favorite toy within a full tub of objects.Having viewed or manipulated an object at a separate time is critical to her ability to later recognize that object in a cluttered environment.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

What are habituation and dishabituation,and what is their relationship to learning development?

Accepted Answer

The answer of What are habituation and dishabituation,and what is...

Question 11

Perceptual development is a _________ process,one of imposing sense and order on the multisensory external world.

Accepted Answer

A)   constructive
B)   static
C)   stressful
D)   unimodal

Question 12

Three-year-old Matty was shown a video of an adult uttering ba ba synchronized with the audio of an adult uttering ga ga.When asked what he heard,Matty reported hearing a very different utterance.This result suggests that

Accepted Answer

A)   visual cues influence the perception of auditory cues when the two are in conflict.
B)   Matty may have a hearing problem that requires immediate treatment.
C)   three-year-olds have already lost the ability to discriminate between some phonemes.
D)   three-year-olds are not yet proficient at discriminating phonemes.

Question 13

Rapid habituation and rapid recovery from habituation to novel stimuli are associated with

Accepted Answer

A)   greater intelligence and cognitive capacities in children.
B)   reduced intelligence and cognitive capacities in children.
C)   greater physical and psychological stress in children.
D)   attentional deficits in children.

Question 14

Recent research suggests that young infants may imitate the facial expressions of adults

Accepted Answer

A)   because they have been classically conditioned to do so.
B)   only as a result of being repeatedly reinforced for engaging in such behavior.
C)   only when they are very hungry and highly aroused.
D)   as a way to help them identify and communicate with the model.

Question 15

________ are typically thought to be the building blocks;________ is thought to be the order and meaning imposed upon those basic elements.

Accepted Answer

A)   Constructs;construction
B)   Sensations;perception
C)   Percepts;sensation
D)   Percepts;attention

Question 16

If a newborn looks at a face,where do its eyes track? Why?

Accepted Answer

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Question 17

________ is the coordination of sensory information to perceive these experiences as integrated and coordinated,and to draw perceptual inferences.

Accepted Answer

A)   Intermodal perception
B)   Amodal perception
C)   Perceptual differentiation
D)   Perceptual accommodation

Question 18

Physiological measures taken from the brainstem suggest that responsiveness to vision is nearly adult-like for some frequencies in newborns.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

One source of information that is very important for the development of depth perception is

Accepted Answer

A)   the visual cliff.
B)   experiencing fear of depth.
C)   binocular vision.
D)   amblyopia.

Question 20

The loss of rewards is known as negative reinforcement.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 6: Basic Learning and Perception

If ________ does not occur when fixations shift between near and far objects,one sees double objects.

Mervyn pulled out a red block from his pocket and showed it to his four-month-old daughter,Jennifer,a number of times.Jennifer looked at it less and less each time.Then Mervyn pulled out a blue block.If Jennifer showed recovery from habituation,we would expect that she

Statistical learning emphasizes that associations are formed because some events occur in a statistically predictable order.

Suze avoids reaching across a gap,but she readily attempts to crawl across it,indicating that she needs to relearn

Perceptual experience plays an especially critical role in the developing ability to discriminate and distinguish

Infants need to learn to coordinate their perception of depth with safe actions for negotiating their surroundings as

The taste preferences seen in the newborn

What is perceptual learning? Who developed this theory?

Macy is trying to locate her favorite toy within a full tub of objects.Having viewed or manipulated an object at a separate time is critical to her ability to later recognize that object in a cluttered environment.

What are habituation and dishabituation,and what is their relationship to learning development?

Perceptual development is a _________ process,one of imposing sense and order on the multisensory external world.

Three-year-old Matty was shown a video of an adult uttering ba ba synchronized with the audio of an adult uttering ga ga.When asked what he heard,Matty reported hearing a very different utterance.This result suggests that

Rapid habituation and rapid recovery from habituation to novel stimuli are associated with

Recent research suggests that young infants may imitate the facial expressions of adults

are typically thought to be the building blocks; is thought to be the order and meaning imposed upon those basic elements.

If a newborn looks at a face,where do its eyes track? Why?

________ is the coordination of sensory information to perceive these experiences as integrated and coordinated,and to draw perceptual inferences.

Physiological measures taken from the brainstem suggest that responsiveness to vision is nearly adult-like for some frequencies in newborns.

One source of information that is very important for the development of depth perception is

The loss of rewards is known as negative reinforcement.