Deck 1: Infancy: The Physical World 1

Question 1

Infants' understanding of objects and the physical laws governing their interactions is known as naive ___.

Answer 1

physics

Question 2

Infants prefer to look at the visual event that matches an auditory soundtrack. This shows a preference for ___ across modalities.

Answer 2

congruence

Question 3

A ___ is a generalized cognitive representation of a class of stimuli.

Answer 3

prototype

Question 4

Statistical learning requires the ability to track ___ probabilities.

Question 5

"Above" and "below" are examples of ___ relations.

Question 6

"More than" and "less than" are examples of ___ relations.

Question 7

In violation of expectation paradigms, typical regularities in the relations between objects are violated in ___ events.

Question 8

In the development of infants' physical reasoning, spatial relations are typically learned earliest in the event category of ___

Question 9

Violation of expectation paradigms have been criticized because it is not possible to discount ___ interpretations of differences in infants' looking time.

Question 10

An electroencephalogram (EEG) measures ___ signaling by cell assemblies in the brain by attaching sensitive electrodes to the scalp.

Question 11

An object's spatial and temporal information is usually processed by the ___ route of visual processing, also known as the 'where' pathway.

Question 12

Having a full ___ concept refers to having the understanding that objects are enduring entities that continue to exist when out of view.

Question 13

A baby who is a "short looker" in habituation paradigms is assumed to be faster at ___ information.

Question 14

Infants are able to learn by associative learning, learning by imitation, and ___ based learning.

Question 15

Infants' ability to remember pictures of geometric forms and faces that they had seen 2 days ago is evidence for a well-developed ___ memory.

Question 16

In working memory experiments, participants usually find it easier to remember the first and last items in a set of objects. This is known as the primacy effect and the ___ effect.

Question 17

In Rovee-Collier's paradigm, infants learn to kick to activate a mobile. They are learning a ___ contingency.

Question 18

In Rovee-Collier's reactivation paradigm, showing infants a moving mobile acts as a ___ cue.

Question 19

Procedural memory is also known as ___ memory.

Question 20

In the visual ___ paradigm, infants are shown two pictures and their looking times for both pictures are measured as an index of their ability to make a visual discrimination between the pictures.