Chapter 2: Infant Perception

Question 1

_______ is used in combination with _____ ______, heart rate, head turns and high amplitude sucking

Answer 1

Habituation, preferential looking

Question 2

Involves showing infants two patterns or two objects at a time.

Answer 2

Preferential looking

Question 3

Perceptual Narrowing

Answer 3

A developmental process where infant’s sensitivity to distinctions not featured in their linguistic or social environments declines

Question 4

Sucking increases when new stimuli is presented

Changes indicate baby notices difference

Answer 4

High Amplitude Sucking

Question 5

Physiological response
Deceleration: orienting, attentional response
Acceleration: startle, fear, upset

Answer 5

Heart Rate

Question 6

Looming studies

Answer 6

Object approaching infant

Question 7

Dishabituation

Answer 7

The reemergence of interest when the stimulus is changed and thus becomes new again.

Question 8

Equivalence Classification

Answer 8

The realization that acoustically distant stimuli belong to the same phonological category