Chapter 5 quiz

Which child is at greatest risk for a possible hearing impairment?

A 1-year-old who has had repeated ear infections

Which of the following is correct regarding specialized face processing during infancy?

As infants are exposed to faces in their environments they tune their face-processing systems to include only faces from familiar groups.

Which of the following is true of infants' auditory perception?

Infants hear sounds best that have pitches in the range of human speech.

Which of the following is true concerning the development of attention?

The orienting response makes infants aware of potentially important or dangerous events.

Which of the following statements concerning reaching and grasping is true?

When 4-month-olds reach for an object, they repeatedly move their hand a short distance, slow down, and adjust direction.

Newborns can't maintain an upright posture because they

are top-heavy

According to inter-sensory redundancy theory, infants are more likely to detect a change in a rhythmic pattern when information is presented in

audio and video simultaneously

An infant's color vision is similar to an adult's color vision

by 3 to 4 months of age.

Children are most likely to enjoy and continue to participate in a sport when

coaches have realistic expectations and demands for player

Interposition, texture gradient, relative size, and linear perspective all provide cues for..

depth perception.

According to ____________, motor development involves many distinct skills that are organized and reorganized over time to meet the demands of specific tasks.

dynamic systems theory

Handedness

emerges by the first birthday and is well established by the time children enter kindergarten.

Newborns' sense of smell...

is well-developed at birth

Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

often act before thinking

Infants use many cues to object unity, including common motion, color, ______________, and aligned edges.

texture