Infant Sensory Capabilities Flashcards
Soft sounds that adults hear must be made noticeably louder before a neonate can detect them
Hearing
What is a Neonate?
New Born Baby
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• Finding: Reveals that newborns suck faster on a nipple to hear a recording of their mother’s voice than a recording of another woman.
Anthony DeCasper & associates
smallest meaningful sound
units that make up a spoken language.
Phonemes
common bacterial infection of
the middle ear that produces mild to moderate hearing loss.
Otitis media
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research in this area by demonstrating that infants 2 to 3 months old could distinguish consonant sounds that are very similar (such as ba and pa).
Peter Eimas
True of False
Infant are born with definite taste preferences
True
True or False
Newborns are also capable of detecting a variety of odors, and they react vigorously by turning away and displaying expressions of disgust in response to unpleasant smells.
True
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This demonstrated that the infants had learned their mother’s unique smell in their 1st week of life, and they had also developed a preference for her smell over the smells of other nursing women.
Macfarlane
This idicates that the
neonate is sensitive to light
Pupillary reflex
ability to see small objects
and fine detail.
Visual acuity
amount of light/dark
transition in a visual stimulus.
visual contrast
the tendency to perceive
an object as the same size from different
distances despite changes in the size of its
retinal image.
Size constancy
the process by which we stop attending or
responding to a stimulus repeated over and over
Habituation
A neutral conditioned stimulus (CS) is
repeatedly paired with an unconditioned stimulus (UCS);
eventually, the CS alone comes to elicit a response called a
conditioned response (CR).
Classical conditioning
