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Slater & Lewis: Introduction to Infant Development

Chapter 11

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Question 1

By which age has infants' visual acuity become similar to that of an adult?

a) 6 months

b) 12 months

c) 18 months

d) 36 months

Question 2

Newborn infants orient more to:

a) Scrambled faces

b) Inverted faces

c) Schematic faces

d) Other objects

Question 3

Which of these is not a theory of face preferences in newborns?

a) They are "bottom heavy" in that they have more elements in the lower half

b) Infants may be born with an innate 'face detecting' brain mechanism

c) Infants are born with an innate representation of faces

d) Faces display non-facelike stimulus characteristics that are inherently appealing

Question 4

At what age do infants start to show a left visual field (right hemisphere) advantage in face processing?

a) 2 months

b) 4 months

c) 8 months

d) 12 months

Question 5

Six month old infants show two ERP components linked to face perception, which respond to:

a) Type (species) of face and upright orientation

b) Gender of face and profile versus semi-profile

c) Age of face and full face versus semi-profile

d) Ethnic origin of face and gender

Question 6

By which age do infants have difficulty in discriminating between monkey faces (of the same species of monkey)?

a) 3 months

b) 6 months

c) 9 months

d) 12 months

Question 7

At what age do infants not form facial prototypes?

a) In the newborn period

b) Around 1 month

c) Around 3 months

d) Around 6 months

Question 8

Newborn infants of depressed mothers:

a) Are quicker to habituate to her face

b) Avoid eye contact with their mother

c) Prefer to look at a stranger's face

d) Take longer to habituate to her face

Question 9

By which age can infants recognize a profile view of the face?

a) 3 months

b) 6 months

c) 9 months

d) 12 months

Question 10

Configural processing refers to:

a) The use of the spacing or relations among facial features

b) Attention to individual facial features

c) Special attention to the faces of conspecifics

d) Attention to the relationship between the outer and inner facial features

Question 11

Featural processing refers to:

Question 12

By which age do infants discriminate between a videotaped moving image of themselves and another person?

a) 3 months

b) 4-5 months

c) 8-9 months

d) 12 months

Question 13

Recognition of the self in the mirror emerges around which age?

a) 4-5 months

b) 8-9 months

c) 10-14 months

d) 18-24 months

Question 14

The majority of infants, when shown paired photos of faces:

a) Prefer to look at the mother's face rather than a stranger's

b) Prefer to look at the father's face rather than the mother's

c) Prefer to look at a female stranger's face rather than the mother's

d) Prefer to look at a familiar rather than a stranger's face

Question 15

It is suggested that infants look longer at attractive female faces when paired with less attractive ones because:

a) They are more distinctive

b) They are more symmetrical

c) They are closer to a statistical average facial configuration

d) The unattractive ones are closer to the average face

Question 16

There is a preference for 'faceness' in infancy that disappears around what age?

a) 1 month

b) 3 months

c) 6 months

d) 9 months

Question 17

By which age can infants categorize faces according to attractiveness?

a) At birth

b) 3 months

c) 6 months

d) 12 months

Question 18

'Social referencing' refers to:

a) Interacting with mother, particularly engaging in joint gaze following

b) Engaging in one-to-one interactions with the primary caregiver

c) Looking to caregiver for cues about how to react during novel situations

d) Awareness of the reciprocal relations involved in social interactions

Question 19

Who are more advanced at processing emotional expression?

a) Boys rather than girls

b) Girls rather than boys

c) Neither gender

d) Girls rather than boys but only after 15 months

Question 20

When a adult who is interacting with an infant shifts their direction of gaze away from the infant, infants are likely to:

a) Smile more in order to reinstate the interaction

b) Not change their behavior so long as the person continues to interact

c) Follow the direction of gaze of the interacting person

d) Smile less and decrease their looking at the adult

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