Question 1

In the field of perceptual development, nature proponents are referred to as ________.

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Question 2

Your ability to see faces and patterns with the right hemisphere of the brain and understand language with the left hemisphere is due to ________.

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Question 3

The ability to relate and integrate information from two or more sensory modalities, such as vision and hearing, is referred to as ________.

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Question 4

Name the theorist who developed and used the "looking chamber" to study the vision of infants in the early 1960s.

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Question 5

Name the lobe in the brain that is responsible for voluntary movement and thinking.

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Question 6

Baby Tobias turns his head when his mother strokes his cheek. Tobias also turns his head toward the side that is touched. This reflex is called the ________.

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Question 7

Decreased responsiveness to a stimulus after repeated presentations of the stimulus is referred to as ________.

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Question 8

Name the theorists who are renowned for using the "visual cliff" to study the vision of infants.

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Question 9

According to the ________, perception functions to bring organisms in contact with the environment so that they can adapt to it.

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Question 10

In the context of reflexes, the ________ enables newborns to get nourishment before they have associated a nipple with food and also serves as a self-soothing or self-regulating mechanism.

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Question 11

In the context of perceptual constancy, the recognition that an object's shape remains the same even though its orientation to the observer changes is referred to as ________.

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Question 12

Name the part of the neuron that carries signals away from the cell body.

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Question 13

In the context of reflexes, the ________ is a neonatal startle response in which a newborn arches its back, throws its head back, flings out its arms and legs, and then pulls its arms and legs close to the center of the body.

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Question 14

Mauricio takes his baby to the doctor for a one-month checkup. His doctor does a test where he presents an object or a sound and checks if the baby turns his head toward it. What response is the doctor testing?

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Question 15

Identify the term, according to the ecological view, that refers to opportunities for interaction by objects that fit within our capabilities to perform functional activities.

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Question 16

The recovery of a habituated response after a change in stimulation is referred to as ________.

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Question 17

Name the nerve cell that handles information processing in the brain.

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Question 18

Name the developmental sequence in which the earliest growth always occurs at the top-the head-with physical growth in size, weight, and feature differentiation gradually working from top to bottom.

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Question 19

Identify the condition that occurs when infants stop breathing, usually during the night, and die suddenly without an apparent cause.

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Question 20

Gustavo believes that motor skills represent solutions to an infant's goals. According to him, when a baby is offered a new toy, the baby attempts to grab the toy while also balancing itself. He believes that this active improvisation and adaptation to achieve one's goal demonstrates that nature, nurture, the infant, and the environment are all working together. Gustavo is a proponent of which theory?

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Quiz 4: Physical Development in Infancy