sensory and motor development 1

Question 1

what age is a foteus?

Answer 1

prior to birth

Question 2

what age is a neonate?

Answer 2

first few days post birth

Question 3

what age is an infant?

Answer 3

up to 2yrs

Question 4

what age is a preschooler

Answer 4

2-4yrs

Question 5

what age is childhood?

Answer 5

5 years to adolesence

Question 6

what age is adolescent?

Answer 6

12-18 years

Question 7

do we need to use methods suitable for non-linguistic populations for infants?

Answer 7

oui

along with help from parents

Question 8

what can infants do?

Answer 8

• look
• grasp
• suck
• crawl, eventually walk

Question 9

sucking more= ____ excited

no change in sucking rate =______

Answer 9

more

not noticed anything different

Question 10

we measure how much babies look at the ____ picture as opposed to an _______ picture

Answer 10

new

old

Question 11

the proportion of time babies spend looking at a picture can tell us

Answer 11

• if they can tell the things are different
• if they can remember the first picture
• what info they have encoded from the pic

= known as the visual paired comparison task (VPC)

Question 12

what is the Visual paired comparison task? (VPC)

Answer 12

• babies shown pic until they habituate (bored of it)
• shown two pics at once- the old one and a new one
• we measure how much they look at the new one

Question 13

what scale is used to check if newborns are okay to participate in studies?

Answer 13

APGAR

Question 14

what does APGAR stand for?

Answer 14

-appearance= pink-blue
-pulse = absent-100bpm
-grimace= no response-grimaces/cries
-activity - none- all limbs
-respiration= absent- robust cry
0-10
8 or above= okay

Question 15

can newborns see well?

Answer 15

no, everything fuzzy

Question 16

can 1-2mnts old see well?

Answer 16

can fixate on objects and distinguish high contrast colours

Question 17

at ____ depth perception and improved colour vision are now apparent. can follow objects with eyes (without turning head)

Answer 17

4mths

Question 18

at _______ visual range increases- can recognise people across a room

Answer 18

8mths

Question 19

at _____ vision is similar to adults

Answer 19

1yr

Question 20

do babies show a preferntial interest in face like stimuli?

Answer 20

HELL YES

- shown by fantz 61

Question 21

are newborns capable of recognising individuals faces?

Answer 21

yes

- can recognise mothers face when olfactory cues are removed and when inadvertent visual cues are controlled for

Question 22

is visual recognition in newborns likely to be accompanied by any explicit cog insight?

Answer 22

no

Question 23

what is perceptual narrowing?

Answer 23

infants visual perception becomes increasingly tailored to regular features of the childs environment

Question 24

what is ‘the other race effect’?

Answer 24

-infants can discriminate well between faces they see
- get better at distinguishing between the kind of faces they see
while losing ability to discriminate between faces they dont see often