Post Midterm - 2

Question 1

What are the steps in Depth Perception?

Answer 1

Birth - 1 month: Sensitivity to motion cues
2-3 months: Sensitivity to binocular cues
6-7 months: Sensitivity to pictorial cues & wariness of heights

Question 2

What are the steps in pattern perception? 3 Weeks old

Answer 2

Poor contrast sensitivity. Prefer large simple patterns.

Question 3

What are the steps in pattern perception? 2 months old

Answer 3

Can detect a fine-grained detail. Prefer complex patterns.

Question 4

What are the steps in pattern perception? 4 months old

Answer 4

Can detect patterns even if boundaries are not really present.

Question 5

What are the steps in pattern perception? 12 months

Answer 5

Can detect objects if two-thirds is missing.

Question 6

What is intermodal perception?

Answer 6

Making sense of multi sensory input as integrated wholes.

Question 7

How old can infants detect amodal sensory properties?

Answer 7

Even as newborns. Abilities develop rapidly in first year.

Question 8

What is intermodal stimulation?

Answer 8

Simultaneous input from more than one modality, or sensory system.

Question 9

What is differentiation theory of infant perception?

Answer 9

Infants actively search for invariant, unchanging features of the environment. They note stable relationships between features.

Question 10

As perception gets more and more sensitive…?

Answer 10

Differentiation

Question 11

Acting on the environment helps this process:

Answer 11

Affordances