chap 5 Flashcards
Newborns’ sense of smell ______________.
a. is so poor that they cannot use it to identify their
mothers.
b. differs from adults’ sense of small; newborns
turn away from odors that adults find pleasant
(e.g., honey or chocolate).
c. is well-developed at birth.
c
- Which of the following is true of infants’ auditory
perception?
a. Infants hear sounds best that have pitches in the
range of human speech.
b. Infants can hear high-pitched sounds the best.
c. Infants cannot discriminate vowel and consonant
sounds.
a
Which child is at greatest risk for a possible hearing
impairment?
a. A 1-year-old who has had repeated ear infections
b. A 2-month-old who does not respond to his name
c. A 6-month-old who overreacts to loud sounds
a
An infant’s color vision is similar to an adult’s color vision \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. a. at birth. b. by 7 to 8 months of age. c. by 3 to 4 months of age.
c
According to intersensory redundancy theory,
infants are more likely to detect a change in a
rhythmic pattern when information is presented in
______________.
a. video only
b. audio and video simultaneously
c. audio only
b
Infants use many cues to object unity, including common
motion, color, _____________, and aligned edges.
a. texture
b. linear perspective
c. retinal disparity
a
Interposition, texture gradient, relative size, and linear
perspective all provide cues for ______________.
a. visual acuity
b. color perception
c. depth perception
c
Which of the following is correct regarding specialized
face processing during infancy?
a. As infants are exposed to faces in their environments,
they lose the ability to recognize familiar
faces.
b. The ability to recognize own-race faces is lost
over the first year of life while simultaneously
gaining the ability to individuate other-race faces.
c. As infants are exposed to faces in their environments
they tune their face-processing systems to
include only faces from familiar groups.
c
Which of the following is true concerning the
development
of attention?
a. The orienting and alerting networks are mature at
birth but the executive network develops slowly.
b. All attention networks are mature at birth.
c. All attention networks develop gradually over
infancy, the preschool years, and the early
elementary
school years.
a
Children with attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder
(ADHD) ______________.
a. often act before thinking
b. are well liked by their peers
c. have below average levels of intelligence
A
According to ______________, motor development
involves many distinct skills that are organized
and reorganized over time to meet the demands
of specific tasks.
a. intersensory redundancy theory
b. dynamic systems theory
c. motion parallax theor
b
Newborns can’t maintain an upright posture because they \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. a. are top-heavy b. are bottom-heavy c. have more developed limps than trunk
a
Which of the following statements concerning reaching
and grasping is true?
a. When 4-month-olds reach for an object, they
repeatedly
move their hand a short distance,
slow down, and adjust direction.
b. Most 3-month-olds use their fingers and thumb
to hold objects.
c. By 6 months of age, most infants can adjust their
grip to match the size and orientation of an object.
A
Handedness is ______________.
a. well established by 3 months of age
b. influenced by environment but not heredity
c. emerges by the first birthday and is well established
by the time children enter kindergarten
C
visual acuity assesses
how clearly an infant can see
