15. Perceptual Development

Question 1

You can test was a baby sees and thinks using p____ l____

Answer 1

Preferential looking

Question 2

You can test what a baby sees and thinks by showing them f____ and n____ things

Answer 2

Familiar and novel (familiarisation)

Question 3

What are two bias in the infant visual system?
Bias to h____ c____ and s____ s____

Answer 3

Bias to high contrast
and specific stimuli

Question 4

Infants have an early preference for f____ l____ stimuli

Answer 4

Face like

Question 5

Visual a____ is poor at birth, but by ____ months children have 20/20 vision

Answer 5

acuity, 36

Question 6

Why might the immaturity of infant visual system provide the best learning ground for discriminating faces?
Teaching weighting of g____ p____ over l____ p____

Answer 6

Teaching weighting of global processing over local processing

Question 7

Define “critical periods”

Answer 7

A period in development when perceptual systems are sensitive to environmental stimuli

Question 8

Although all the colour receptors are present at birth, pathways to seeing colour are i____

Answer 8

immature

Question 9

What is meant by colour discrimination thresholds?

Answer 9

How intense a colour needs to be to be able to tell it apart from grey

Question 10

At 4 days old, infants look longer at Mum’s face than a stranger’s face,
but not when it’s just the i____ f____
and only after m____-m____ e____

Answer 10

… it’s just the internal features
… multi-modal exposure (hello!)

Question 11

__ month olds discriminate faces of other species, __ month olds do not

Answer 11

6, 9

Question 12

Define Perceptual narrowing
E____, or lack of e____, shapes e____

Answer 12

Experience, or lack of experience, shapes expertise (‘use it or lose it’/refinement)

Question 13

Perceptual narrowing is d____ g____

Answer 13

Domain general

Question 14

Cues like l____ aid the ability to d____ faces

Answer 14

labelling, discriminate