Exam 5: Perceptual Development

Monique is three months old. If she is developing normally, she has switched from a visual strategy designed to ________ things to a strategy designed to ________ things.

When mothers with depression exhibit sensitive parenting behaviors, their infants are less likely to display negative effects. This provides support for the importance of

The researcher Elizabeth Spelke believes that babies are born with the assumption that when two sufaces of objects are connected to each other, they belong to the same object. She calls this the __________ .

Why is motherese important?

Nativists believe that the change in "rules" of perception that occurs at various ages is due to __________ of the nervous system.

Researchers have found that babies begin to focus on the internal features of a face, especially the eyes, at about

The mother of six-month-old Robbie makes a cooing sound to him until he becomes bored and looks away. She then clicks her tongue, which makes him look at her again. Robbie has

Gabrielle can discriminate between two-syllable sounds. It is most likely that she acquired this ability at what age?

How do auditory acuity and visual acuity compare in the newborn infant?

In Bower's study, two-month-old infants responded to tilted or slightly turned rectangles as if they were the same as the original rectangle, even though the retinal images caused by the tilted rectangles were actually trapezoids. This demonstrates that two-month-olds have some

When a baby understands that her bottle still exists even when she throws it down and it disappears under the sofa, she is demonstrating

Langlois's research has shown that babies as young as two months old will look at

According to Steiner's research, children can first respond differentially to sweet, sour, and bitter flavors at

The term describing the ability to see objects as remaining the same despite changes in sensory information is called __________ .

Babies lose the ability to distinguish vowels that do not occur in the language they are hearing by ________ of age and the ability to discriminate nonheard consonant contrasts by ________ of age.

Understanding that an object is the same height even when seen from a distance is

The development of depth perception is called __________ , and is not completely developed until a child's brain is able to fully fuse images.

When researchers use reinforcement to study infant perception, they are using the technique of

Olivia wants her baby to be able to speak her native language as well as English. She should introduce her baby to her native language before six months because in the first six months, babies.

Why would you recommend preschoolers take music lessons?