Exam 4: Infancy: Early Learning, Motor Skills, and Perceptual Capacities

Each time Baby Masha sucks on her bottle, she receives a sweet-tasting liquid. When baby Masha sucks on a pacifier, she is met with a sour taste, which causes her to purse her lips and stop sucking entirely. The sour taste is a(n)

Which of the following statements is true about crying infants?

Studies of familiarity preference show that infants

Baby Wesley cries at the sound of another infant crying. Some researchers believe that this response

In many mammals, the sense of smell plays an important role in

According to Eleanor and James Gibson's __________ theory, infants actively search for invariant features of the environment.

The sense of __________ is a fundamental means of interaction between parents and babies.

Infants with severe visual impairments are not motivated to move independently until

Which of the following infants is the most likely to refuse to cross the deep side of the visual cliff?

At birth, babies prefer

To soothe a crying baby, most Western parents usually try

Studies of animals exposed to extreme forms of sensory deprivation provide ample evidence that

Which of the following statements is true about learning using habituation versus operant conditioning?

Crying typically peaks at

Expensive early learning centers that feature a full curriculum of reading, math, science, art, music, and ?gym

Two-month-old Roderick lives in a home with parents who both smoke cigarettes. He has a mild respiratory infection and sleeps on a soft crib mattress. Roderick is at high risk for

In relating to their physical and social worlds, babies are

Napping usually subsides

Which of the following is an accurate finding of the Bucharest Early Intervention Project?

__________ is/are among the earliest available predictors of intelligence in childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood.