2 Flashcards

1
Q

Most visual functions are adult like by the age of….

A

12

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2
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What is Clearness of Vision

A

Visual Acuity

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3
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no depth perception younger than how mnay months

(Visual Cliff)

A

6

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4
Q

where are receptors located?

A

Skin
Under the Foot

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5
Q

Discrimination or Memory? which one is first

A

Discriminate= first

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6
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Spatial Awareness

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7
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Optical illusions are

Intrasensory or Intersensory

A

Intersensory

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8
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What experiment got babys to walk on a platform

A

Karon Adolph experiment

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9
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What type of phenomenon is a social setting

A

Cocktail party phenomenon

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10
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Example of Body Drag

A

Crawling

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11
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  • abdomen clear (stomach not touching floor) ex: crawling
A

Creeping

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12
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What is the hardest action to do
Grasp/ Release/ Reach out

A

Releasing

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13
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how many phases of manuel control are there?

A

4

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14
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Direction is dictated by Biological or environment

A

Biological

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15
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Strength is dictated by Biological or environment

A

environment

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16
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When is the Sensitive Period

A

2-8 weeks or
1st Trimester

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17
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Environmental agent that can cause birth defect or kill the fetus

A

Teratogen

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18
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Low Birth Rate is less than how many pounds?

A

5.5

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19
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What is the Growth Hormone

A

Pituitary Gland (PH)

20
Q

What does the Thyroid Release?

A

Thyroxine

21
Q

most important modalities for perceptual processing

A

Visual and Kinesthetic

22
Q

An objecr continues to exist when they are no longer in view

A

Visual Function/ Object Permananance

23
Q
A

A not B error

24
Q

Ability to distinguish an object from its surrounding back

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Figure- Ground Perception

25
Q

Ability to judge distance of an object from the sheld

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Depth Perception

26
Q

Environemnt that can be seen without a change in the fixation of the eye.

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Field of Vision

27
Q

Awareness of movement and body position

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Kinestheseis

28
Q

Which comes first?
Discrimination or Memory?

A

Discrimination

29
Q

Ability to attend to relevant information

A

Selective Attention

30
Q

Limitations in the capacity to handle information from environment

A

Divided Attention

31
Q

Recognition or Recall

Noticing whether a stimulus is identical or similar to one previusly experience

A

Recognition

32
Q

Recognition or Recall

The more advanced form of memory, involves remembering a stimulus that isnt present

A

Recall

33
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Early processing Abilities

Reaction to stimulus declines

A

Habituation

34
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Basic Measure of processing Speed

A

Reaction Time (RT)

35
Q

Hick’s Law or Fitts Law

Processing time increases as information load (complexity) increases RT

A

Hick’s Law

36
Q

Hick’s Law or Fitts Law

When performers attempt to do something more quickly, they typically do it less accurately (Speed- Accuracy Trade off)

A

Fitt’s Law (Not fit to do it)

37
Q

Schema Theory:

GMP stands for

A

Generalized Motor Program
-Formulate movement plans to help you have a desired action

38
Q

-Formulate movement plans to help you have a desired action

Recall, Recognition, Motor

Variability in practice promotes general

A

(GMP-Schema Theory)

39
Q

Theories of Motor Control:

Motor programs control groupings of muscles w/ associated joints

Degrees of Freedom

Synergies (muscle groupings)

Coordinative Structures
Dynamical Systems
Neuronal Group Selection

A

Coordinative Structures

40
Q

Lies under what model?

You can either limit behavior, or faciliate behavior

A

Newells Constraint Model

41
Q

Processing Speed and Movement Time
(As you get older its harder to do Complex tasks)

A

Psychomotor slowing

42
Q

Voluntary or Involuntary

Reflexes are

A

Involuntary

43
Q

Primitive

Postural

Locomotor

are 3 types of what?

A

Reflexes

44
Q

Primitive

Primitive
Postural
Locomotor

Crawling, Stepping, Swimming

A

Locomotor

45
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