Exam 4: Perceptual development

From four months of age,infants show an understanding of what various facial expressions mean and how to respond to them.

What theory emphasises the way that knowledge affects perception?

Infants prefer salty tastes,whereas children aged four months prefer sweeter tastes.

Sensitivity to odours reaches adult levels at what age?

Images that are projected onto our retina are three-dimensional.

Haptic perception refers to the way that children use their sense of vision to explore the sensory qualities of objects.

When a baby is touched,which of the following is likely to occur?

Infants show surprise when information they receive from one sense contradicts information they receive from another sense.These findings are evidence for ______________ in very young infants.

Infants are able to perceive different aspects of musical structure by what age?

By one month old,newborns are able to combine visual and oral experiences.This is an example of:

Preferences for certain smells are present within the first few weeks of life.

Discuss the methodological challenges and limitations in researching the sensory systems of young infants.

Kiera's mum is her primary caregiver.At what age will she show a preference for novel female faces over male faces?

Foetal hearing is measured behaviourally by measuring a foetus's:

When a newborn diverts his attention to a novel sound,this is an example of intermodal exploration.

What is a typical reaction from a young infant who is presented with food odours rated as unpleasant by adults?

Discuss two recent research findings in the area of infant/children's pain.

The cue to depth and distance perception produced by integration of the slightly different images received by each eye are:

Depth and distance perception is almost as accurate in four year olds as it is in adults.

Physiological evidence suggests that which of the senses is thought to be the first sensory system to develop?