5.4 check

Question 1

With age, babies habituate and recover to stimuli ______, indicating that ______.
A) more often; familiarity preference is being replaced by novelty preference
B) more slowly; their cognition is increasing in complexity
C) more quickly; they process information more efficiently
D) less often; remote memory is strengthening relative to recent memory

Answer 1

more quickly; they process information more efficiently

Question 2

Classical conditioning ______.
A) increases the survival value of reflexive responses, thereby strengthening newborn reflexes
B) helps infants recognize which everyday events usually occur together, so they can anticipate what is likely to happen next
C) accelerates infant motor attainments, including rolling over, reaching, sitting, and crawling
D) involves reinforcing certain behaviors, making them more likely to occur in the future

Answer 2

helps infants recognize which everyday events usually occur together, so they can anticipate what is likely to happen next

Question 3

Operant conditioning plays a vital role in the development of ______.
A) motor skills
B) perceptual differentiation
C) autobiographical memories
D) social relationships

Answer 3

social relationships

Question 4

Infants’ remarkable statistical learning capacity ______.
A) extends to visual and musical stimuli
B) begins to develop in the middle of the first year
C) emerges about the time they say their first words
D) is limited to the speech stream

Answer 4

extends to visual and musical stimuli