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Slater & Lewis: Introduction to Infant Development

Chapter 05

Instructions

Choose your answers from a-d by clicking the radio button next to each choice and then press 'Submit' to get your score.

Question 1

Early theories emphasized which view of perceptual development?

a) Nativist

b) Innate

c) Empiricist

d) Hard-wired

Question 2

Who claimed that only perception of light, and reflexes to light, were present at birth?

a) Darwin

b) Piaget

c) Skinner

d) Bandura

Question 3

Which sense is the first to develop in utero?

a) Hearing

b) Smell

c) Taste

d) Touch

Question 4

At what age can babies detect weight changes in objects?

a) In the newborn period

b) 2 months

c) 3 months

d) 4 months

Question 5

At what age can babies differentiate between cold and warm objects?

a) In the newborn period

b) 2 months

c) 3 months

d) 4 months

Question 6

When are neural pathways for pain present?

a) 8 weeks from conception

b) 17 weeks from conception

c) 26 weeks from conception

d) Soon after birth

Question 7

At what age do food phobias develop?

a) At 3 months when solid foods are introduced

b) Around 1 year

c) Around 18 months

d) After 2 years

Question 8

When does breathing (inhaling and exhaling) begin?

a) Around 10 weeks from conception

b) Around 20 weeks from conception

c) Around 30 weeks from conception

d) At birth

Question 9

Newborns who have lavender added to their bath oil:

a) Breathe more deeply

b) Spend more time sleeping

c) Spend more time awake

d) Spend more time in deep sleep and less time fussing

Question 10

Sensitivity to higher pitched sounds:

a) Develops before sensitivity to lower pitched sounds

b) Is close to adult levels at birth

c) Undergoes development during infancy

d) Is not present at birth

Question 11

A preference for the mother's voice:

a) Develops before birth

b) Develops in the first few days from birth

c) Is found around 1 month from birth

d) Is found around 3 months from birth

Question 12

Babies are born with the capacity:

a) To discriminate between its native language and all others

b) To discriminate between all the speech sounds used in all languages

c) To be particularly attuned to its native language

d) To discriminate words from non-words

Question 13

The "visual cliff" was designed to test:

a) Movement perception

b) Color vision

c) Depth perception

d) Size constancy

Question 14

By what age are infants able to imitate adults' facial gestures?

a) At birth

b) 3 months from conception

c) 8 months

d) 12 months

Question 15

By what age can infants discriminate between faces of their own race and those of others?

a) At birth

b) By 3 months

c) By 6 months

d) By 9 months

Question 16

The vestibular system is:

a) The sense that tells us where our body parts are

b) The part of the brain responsible for visual perception

c) The sense of bodily posture and balance

d) The brain region that controls movement

Question 17

The "moving room" is used to test:

a) Detection of subtle movements

b) Posture and balance

c) Reaching for moving objects

d) Visual tracking of moving lights

Question 18

"Infantile synesthesia" refers to:

a) Young infants' poor sense of touch

b) An inability to distinguish between the information from the different senses

c) An inability to distinguish between different colors

d) An innate ability to extract shape information from both vision and touch

Question 19

Intersensory redundancy refers to:

a) Confusion between the senses

b) An innate ability to extract shape information from both vision and touch

c) The unlearned rules that guide learning about stimulation from different senses

d) Intersensory coordination

Question 20

The cue to depth known as stereopsis appears:

a) Before birth

b) At birth

c) 1-2 months from birth

d) 3-4 months from birth

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Chapter 05

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