Question 1

What are the 3 major techniques used to examine infant capabilities?

Accepted Answer

Preferential looking, Habituation/Dishabituation, Operant Conditioning

Question 2

What is the capacity for learning through classical conditioning?

Accepted Answer

Pairing a neutral stimulus with a reflex

Question 3

What is the capacity for learning through operant conditioning?

Accepted Answer

Pairing reinforcement/punishment with voluntary behavior

Question 4

What does familiarity preference suggest?

Accepted Answer

Constant exposure to something makes it more desirable

Question 5

What technique do babies utilize a lot for learning?

Accepted Answer

Observation and imitation

Question 6

Do infants have memory capabilities?

Accepted Answer

Yes

Question 7

What sense is the least developed at birth?

Accepted Answer

Vision

Question 8

At what age do babies typically have 20-20 vision?

Accepted Answer

3-4 years

Question 9

What type of stimuli do newborns prefer?

Accepted Answer

Patterns, face or face-like stimuli, simple high contrast stimuli

Question 10

At what age do babies prefer typically attractive looking people?

Accepted Answer

2-3 months

Question 11

When do infants start discriminating between positive and negative facial reactions?

Accepted Answer

5 months - 1 year

Question 12

What is perceptual narrowing?

Accepted Answer

The perceptual system becomes better at distinguishing things it sees frequently and worse at distinguishing unfamiliar things

Question 13

What is intermodal perception?

Accepted Answer

Perceiving something through one sense and transferring information to another sense

Question 14

At what age can infants discriminate between human faces?

Accepted Answer

6 months

Question 15

What did the Spelkes Study demonstrate?

Accepted Answer

Infants prefer looking at a toy that bounces at the same rate as the audio they are hearing

Question 16

At what age do infants show a fear of crawling to the deep side of a visual cliff?

Accepted Answer

6 months

Question 17

What are the substages in Piaget's Sensorimotor stage?

Accepted Answer

Reflexes, Primary Circular Reactions, Secondary Circular Reactions, Tertiary Circular Reactions, Beginning of Mental Representation

Question 18

At what age does object permanence start to develop?

Accepted Answer

8 months

Question 19

What is the A-not-B error?

Accepted Answer

Infants search for an object in the original hiding spot, even if they saw it being moved to a different spot

Question 20

What does the Possible-Impossible Event Paradigm study?

Accepted Answer

The understanding of physical reality in infants

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