module 7 chapter 6

Question 1

What is one indicator that infants are paying attention to something

Answer 1

Where they look at

Question 2

What are the three aspects of attention?

Answer 2

orienting
selecting
maintaining

Question 3

Sam heard a vase drop and looked at the vase

what is Sam doing?

Answer 3

Orienting

Question 4

Jill likes to stare at her mothers lips.

what is Jill doing?

Answer 4

Selecting.

Question 5

Bob stares intently at the tv despite her parents yelling in the background.

What is Bob doing

Answer 5

Maintaining

Question 6

What happens when babies do not attend to something?

Answer 6

They do not process

Question 7

As sarah gets older she looks at the same stimulus for shorter periods of time.

What does this say about babies development.

Answer 7

As babies get older infants process visual info quicker and need less time to look at stimulus to learn about

Question 8

When baby is confronted with a large object and a complex what happens?

Answer 8

Orient to big
maintain on complex

Question 9

What part of attention do younger infants struggle with

Answer 9

orienting and disengage

especially disengage

Question 10

When the central target disappears before the peripheral target pops up what does this show and what is the outcome?

Answer 10

1. orienting
2. 1 month older slower than 3-6 mos, meaning orienting improves with age

Question 11

when peripheral shows up while there is a central target what happens in comparison to when the central target was not there?

Answer 11

Babies are slower to disengage
even adults.

Question 12

Sam is confronted with a fearful face as his central target.

What will Sam most likely do?

Answer 12

Find it hard to disengage

Question 13

What is the popular belief as to why babies are slower to disengage with fearful faces?

Answer 13

Evolutionary. Less likely to disengage with threat relevant stimuli =

Question 14

When lining up a bright novel object and a face, what will the infant look at first?

What will the infant look longest at?

Answer 14

1. the bright, novel object
2. Face

Question 15

Who will look longer at a familiar object?

a) younger baby
b) older baby

Answer 15

younger

Question 16

Todd grew up in a poor family and Steph grew up in the suburbs and her parents were doctors.

Who will have the worst time maintaining attention

Answer 16

Todd

Question 17

difference between episodic and autobiographic novels

Answer 17

Episodic = events including what,. where, etc
autobiographical = about yourself

Question 18

what is the reason for not remembering events prior to 3 years of age

Answer 18

childhood amnesia

Question 19

What are the methods best for memorizing infant memory?

Answer 19

1. habituation
2. visual recognition memory
3. operant conditioning
4. deferred imitation

Question 20

What are the three principles of infant memory?

Answer 20

1. older infant encode faster
2. older infant remember longer
3. older infant retrieve easily

Question 21

What did younger infants have trouble with in the operant study?

Answer 21

retrieval cues

if the environment was different, memory was lost

Question 22

The shrinking machine study showcases what?

Answer 22

That childhood amnesia may stem from the fact that infants lack words at the encoding stage to account their episodic memories

Question 23

Does maturation in memory structures predict better memory?

Answer 23

No, there is no link.

Theory: the connection between the structures are improving which improves memory

Question 24

Whtaa re two examples of individual differences between infants for memory

Answer 24

short/long lookers
crawlers/non-crawlers
nap/no nap
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