Exam 3: Coming to Perceive the World

Infants use their ___________ as their primary means of touch-based exploration.

What taste do infants prefer?

___________ refer to the constant interplay between organism and environment.

The infant shows a crude initial ability to localize sounds, which seems to decline briefly before reemerging in a more sophisticated form.This is an example of:

Which sensory system was the first to evolve?

Do some aspects of the auditory system show critical period effects? Include findings from studies involving cochlear implants.

What statement best describes the way newborn chicks peck at their food?

While young infants can tell apart both individual human faces and individual monkey faces, older infants show a decline in the ability to tell monkey faces apart but an improvement at distinguishing between human faces.This is an example of:

Dr.Cashon wants to design a study to determine whether infants can differentiate between a complex pattern-a checkerboard with many squares-and a simple pattern-a checkerboard with few squares.Describe how Dr.Cashon could answer this question using the preferential looking method.In doing so, explain the rationale behind this method.

Jamal was born with eye muscles that made his eyes excessively converge, resulting in a "cross-eyed" condition.Although he had corrective surgery at age 7, his vision was never what would be considered normal.This is an example of a(n):

Elena is a 2-month-old infant participating in a research study.She sees two rod segments moving in the same direction behind an occluding box.Elena infers:

Why might infants be able to use dynamic cues to depth before binocular and pictorial cues?

As the infant develops, the eyeball grows and develops a more spherical form.By about 1 year, the infant's eyeball is roughly spherical, such that light passing through the lens now lands, in focus, on the whole retina.What accounts for these changes in the eye's shape?

Dr.Patel presents infants with a picture of a regular face and a scrambled face.He presents both stimuli at the same time and records the amount of time infants look to each picture to determine if they spend more time looking at one over the other.This is an example of the:

All of the following are common challenges associated with scientists using the preferential looking method EXCEPT:

Which Gestalt principle(s) do young infants use?

Differentiate between sensation and perception.Provide an example of each process.

Define intermodal perception and provide an example.

Researchers using the ___________ method attend to the jumping of the eyes as they track a continuous succession of objects that stream by.