PSY-425 STUDY GUIDE CHAPTER 16 J. COHEN – Flashcards
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Monitor eye movements
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1. The best way to measure an infant's acuity is to
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Have contours
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2. Infants tend to look more at objects that
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Focuses on answering the question "Can an infant tell the difference between two stimuli?"
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3. Testing infant acuity
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Stimulus equally.
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4. One potential limitation of the preferential looking technique is
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Gratings
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5. The stimuli used in the preferential looking technique of testing infant acuity are
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Six months old.
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6. Acuity develops to almost 20/20 vision by the time the infant is
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The visual cortex of the newborn is only partially developed
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7. Which of the following is a reason for the poor acuity of newborns?
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Spatial frequency
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8. Contrast sensitivity functions are a plot of contrast sensitivity as a function of
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Low frequencies better than high frequencies.
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9. The contrast sensitivity function for a 1-month-old infant shows that infants can perceive
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Can be done by infants as young as three- to four-months old
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10. The ability to make visual discriminations between cats and dogs
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The infant can tell the difference between the habituated stimulus and the new stimulus.
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11. When an infant exhibits dishabituation, the researcher concludes
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The 480 nm stimulus.
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12. Bornstein et al. habituated a four-month-old infants to a 510 nm ("green") stimulus, the presented a 480nm ("blue") stimulus or a 540nm ("green") stimulus. The infants in this study dishabituated to
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Can be tested using random dot stereograms.
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13. The ability to use binocular disparity as a depth cue
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3 ½ to 6 months.
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14. Fox et al. (1980) found that the ability to use binocular disparity develops between
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Wooden spools of different sizes; reaching
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15. In their study on infant use of familiar size as depth cue, Granrud et al. used ________ as the stimuli, and ________ as the dependent measure.
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Binocular disparity
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16. Ambrozia is a 4-month-old infant. Which depth cue is she most likely able to use?
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Two-days-old
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17. The preferential looking technique showed that infants as young as ______ will look at their mother's face rather than a stranger's face.
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The contrast between the mother's dark hairline and the light forehead.
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18. Research has shown that an infant can visually recognize his/her mother's face from
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Special mechanism for perceiving faces.
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19. Farah's case study of Adam, a prosopagnosic, is used as support for
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Have more elements in the top-half.
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20. Turati et al (2002) showed that infants prefer stimuli that
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Movement
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21. Which factor is important for a five-month-old to perceive occlusion?
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Can be accomplished by two-month-olds.
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22. The ability to perceive a rod as being continuous behind an occluding block
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Perceivers tended to make more horizontal eye movements.
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23. Johnson et al. (2004) presented moving occluded rods to 3-month-old infants, and classified the infants as "perceivers" or "non-perceivers" of a unified, occluded rod. The main finding of the study was
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Is similar to the audibility curve for an adult
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24. The audibility curve of a 6-month-old infant
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Pattern of nipple sucking
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25. DeCasper and Fifer used ______________ as the dependent variable to test if two-day-old infants could identify the sound of the mother's voice.
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Hearing the mother talk while in the womb.
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26. Research supports that an infant's ability to recognize the mother's voice is due to
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The original version, as it had been read to them prenatally
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27. If a pregnant mother reads the original version of The Cat in The Hat aloud while pregnant, which version of The Cat in The Hat would the infant prefer after birth?
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One-month-old.
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28. The ability to categorize speech sounds is found in infants as young as
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Be able to discriminate between these two phonemes.
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29. Masakazu is a 4-month-old Japanese infant. When presented the phonemes /r/ and /l/, he will
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A visual image of the shape of the pacifier.
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30. A one-day-old infant is able to match the feel of a pacifier's shape in his/her mouth to
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Newborn's recognition of the mother's face.
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31. Infant intermodal perception studies are used to explain
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Responds with a facial expression that displays disgust.
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32. When an eight-hour-old newborn is given a concentrated shrimp odor to smell, the newborn
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Salty
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33. Which of the following tastes do newborns NOT react to?
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Using body movements and facial expression as a dependent measure, and make sure that the infant is responding the odor, and not irritation of the nasal membranes. (All of these are methodological issues)
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34. A methodological issue in testing infant olfaction is
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6-month-old humans
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35. According to Pascalis et al. (2002), which of the following would be able to discriminate between pairs of monkey faces?
