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