Deck 5: A: Perceptual and Motor Development

Question 1

Researchers often measure an infant's heart rate, facial expression, or head movements to see if the infant responds differently to two different stimuli.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Infants' colour perception is similar to adults' by three or four months of age.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

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

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Infants can differentiate sour, salty, bitter, and sweet tastes.

Question 5

A sign of possible hearing impairment is that a two-month-old does not imitate speech sounds and simple words.

Question 6

Parents should be concerned about their baby's hearing if the baby has repeated ear infections.

Question 7

When a stimulus, such as a tone, is presented to an infant over and over again, the infant will eventually habituate to the tone.

Question 8

Young infants cannot use motion to define objects.

Question 9

Infants hear as well as adults.

Question 10

Young infants group features together when they are the same colour.

Question 11

When objects are near, greater disparity in retinal images occurs.

Question 12

At about four months of age, infants use retinal disparity as a depth cue.

Question 13

Newborns don't seem to feel pain.

Question 14

Meningitis is the leading cause of hearing impairment in newborns.

Question 15

By four months, babies have mastered size constancy, brightness constancy, colour constancy, and shape constancy.

Question 16

When testing an infant's visual acuity, looking at plain and patterned stimuli equally means that the infant cannot see the pattern.

Question 17

Young babies cannot use odour to identify their mothers' breast milk.

Question 18

One sign of possible hearing impairment is that an eight- or nine-month-old does not respond to his/her name.

Question 19

Babies who are one and a half months old who cannot crawl are afraid when they are placed on the deep side of the visual cliff.

Question 20

An infant can detect changes in the taste of his mother's breast milk that reflect the mother's diet.

Question 21

After a stimulus is presented repeatedly, infants pay more attention to it. This increase in attention is called habituation.

Question 22

When relative size is used to infer depth, people judge smaller objects as closer.

Question 23

Moving the legs alternately while transferring body weight from one foot to the other is an essential element of walking.

Question 24

Very young infants do not react differently to faces versus non-faces.

Question 25

Le Grand, Mondloch, Maurer, & Brent (2001) found that early visual experience is necessary for the normal development of face processing.

Question 26

The cues for balance come from the eyes, not from the inner ears.

Question 27

Most babies take their first steps at 24 months.

Question 28

Children typically step spontaneously around 10 months of age.

Question 29

By seven or eight months, most babies can stand with help.

Question 30

Paying attention is all about focusing attention on the target task.

Question 31

By four months of age, most babies can sit upright with support.

Question 32

ADHD is caused by eating too much sugar.

Question 33

ADHD is often treated with stimulant drugs.

Question 34

When interposition is used to infer depth, people judge partially obscured objects as more distant.

Question 35

The ability to maintain an upright posture is one component skill of walking.

Question 36

Children with ADHD may be unusually energetic, fidgety, and unable to keep still.

Question 37

More girls than boys are diagnosed with ADHD.

Question 38

Older preschoolers show more focused attention than do younger preschoolers.

Question 39

Attention is the process by which we select information that will be processed further.

Question 40

When texture gradient is used to infer depth, people judge blurred objects to be near.

Question 41

Most one-year-olds use spoons like adults do.

Question 42

A preference for one hand over the other emerges by the first birthday.

Question 43

Almost all school children can meet fitness standards on fitness tests.

Question 44

Most infants cannot coordinate the motions of their hands until they are 12 months old.

Question 45

Children spend nearly half of their time in physical education classes standing around rather than being active.

Question 46

Children develop better skills when their coaches emphasize winning.

Question 47

Sports can give children an opportunity to learn important social skills, such as how to work effectively in a group.

Question 48

Combining component motor skills in proper sequence into a coherent, working whole is called differentiation.