Can You Answer These Infant Sensory Development Flashcards

The smallest spacing that can be perceived between parts of a pattern is known as...

All of the following descriptions of newborn infants’ sensory and perceptual abilities are correct except -their visual acuity is approximately 20/20 by the age of 8 months.-their visual acuity is limited to about 20/400.-they perceive the full range of colors that older children and adults perceive.-they prefer looking at patterns with high contrast.

The depth cue that infants are able to use at the earliest age is ________ information.

Recent studies of infants’ perception of objects suggest that they are able to use all of the following sources of information except -accretion and deletion of adjacent patterns and textures.-movement of objects.-still photos of objects taken from a single perspective.-self-movement.

According to the ________ theoretical view, the visual system perceives meaningful information directly, without any intermediate steps to interpret it.

Odors that infants find pleasant and familiar...

Which of the following would be the best way to test infants’ ability to perceive amodal properties of events?

________ is the rudimentary transformation of chemical or energy information by sense organs into neurochemical signals, while ________ is the extraction of meaning from perceptual information.

Auditory localization, the ability to detect the source of sounds...

If infants look longer at a video display that shows another infant’s legs moving than at a video display that shows their own legs moving, researchers studying intermodal perception have concluded that...

Newborn infants initially have poor vision for all of the following reasons except...-cones do not develop until about 4 months of age.-in order to follow a moving object, they are only able to make a series of short, jerky eye movements.-the visual cortex is immature at birth.-the distance from the front of the eye to the retina limits the size and clarity of the retinal image.

One-month-old Carlos sometimes flings his arms and legs out quickly when he is placed onto the mattress in his crib. This action stimulates his ________ sense.

In one ingenious study of ________ perception, researchers first gave 1-month-old infants a bumpy pacifier to feel in their mouth and only later allowed them to look at that pacifier—after they had placed it next to a smooth pacifier that they had not explored orally.

Which infant sensory ability has been studied the least?

Hannah, a newborn infant, is coming home from the hospital for the first time. Her parents want her nursery to provide optimal visual stimulation. Research would support including all of the following features except -moving objects, such as mobiles.-pastel colors, especially light yellow and light green.-patterns that resemble faces.-patterns featuring areas of high contrast, such as red and white or black and white.