5.6 check Flashcards
Which statement about infants’ hearing is true?
A) Although 6- to 9-month-olds can distinguish individual words in the speech stream, they do not respond to variations in syllable stress patterns.
B) Around 6 to 7 months, infants can distinguish musical tunes on the basis of variations in rhythmic patterns, including beat and accent structure.
C) During the first week of life, most infants can perceive and remember the unique face–voice pairings of unfamiliar adults.
D) Around 12 months, infants start to “screen out” sounds not used in their own language.
Around 6 to 7 months, infants can distinguish musical tunes on the basis of variations in rhythmic patterns, including beat and accent structure.
Which statement is true about intermodal perception and detection of amodal sensory properties in the first two years?
A) Newborns cannot yet perceive amodal properties or engage in intermodal perception.
B) Young babies’ intermodal sensitivity can overwhelm them and interfere with perceptual development.
C) At 15 months, babies can first perceive and remember the unique face–voice pairings of unfamiliar adults.
D) Intermodal perception eases perception of the physical world and facilitates social and language processing.
Intermodal perception eases perception of the physical world and facilitates social and language processing.
Habituation research on object perception reveals that ______.
A) shape constancy is present in the first week of life, emerging earlier than size constancy
B) size constancy is present in the first week of life, emerging earlier than shape constancy
C) size and shape constancy, along with perception of object unity, take about four months to emerge
D) both size constancy and shape constancy, along with perception of object unity, are present in the first week of life
both size constancy and shape constancy, along with perception of object unity, are present in the first week of life
In which order do infants become sensitive to visual depth cues?
A) motion, pictorial, binocular
B) pictorial, motion, binocular
C) motion, binocular, pictorial
D) binocular, motion, pictorial
motion, binocular, pictorial
