Child And Adolescent Development Test 2

Front 1

T or F: Perception is highly personal.

Back 1

True.

Front 2

Everything we experience comes through our ______ ______ at some time.

Back 2

Sensory apparatus.

Front 3

The senses are well developed ______.

Back 3

Prenatally.

Front 4

Sensory capacities are geared toward the ______ ______.

Back 4

Social Environment.

Front 5

T or F: Senses develop, therefore perceptions can change.

Back 5

True.

Front 6

Constructivists

Back 6

-On the side of nurture.

-Argue that perceptions are constructed through learning.

-Require stimulation to develop, i.e. input from the environment(vision and hearing).

Front 7

Nativists

Back 7

-On the side of nature.

-Argue that innate capabilities and maturational programs drive perceptual development and that perception does not require interpretation.

Front 8

Preferential Looking

Back 8

Duration of looking at one of a stimulus pair.

Front 9

Habituation

Back 9

Learning to be bored.

Front 10

Operant Conditioning

Back 10

-Learn to react to one stimulus.

-Discriminate second stimulus.

Front 11

Evoked Potentials

Back 11

Record brain's response to stimuli.

Front 12

Assessing Infant Perception

Back 12

-Behavioral change.

-Preferential looking.

-Habituation.

-Operant conditioning.

-Evoked potentials.

Front 13

T or F: Visual development is the first to develop.

Back 13

False. It is last.

Front 14

By ______ month pc rods and cones on retina are wired.

Back 14

6th.

Front 15

By _____ month pc eyes anatomically complete and functional. (The baby can get startled and blink/turn away from a bright light).

Back 15

7th.

Front 16

Myelination of the optic nerve by birth (but thin), complete by ______.

Back 16

2.5 months.

Front 17

T or F: Structures do develop at the same rate.

Back 17

False. They do not.

Front 18

______. ______, ______ are relatively large.

Back 18

Lens, cornea, retina.

Front 19

T or F: Eye of newborn is 1/4 size.

Back 19

False. It is 1/2 size.

Front 20

Newborn visual acuity is ______(Legally blind).

Back 20

20/600.

Front 21

When will a baby's vision be 20/20?

Back 21

By a year old.

Front 22

Color perception discrimination from ______ months pc (cones).

Back 22

6 months.

Front 23

At birth, ______ and ______ most pronounced (black/white).

Back 23

Reds, greens.

Front 24

Visual Cliff Experiment

Back 24

-Gibson and Walk (1960s).

-Human babies were put on glass and can see cliff underneath but not aware of glass protecting.

-Enough convincing from mother will get them across or keep them back.

Front 25

Three Main Components of Pattern Perception.

Back 25

-Contour(angles,curves,slope).

-Contrast(light/dark; color).

-Movement.

Front 26

1947 Bernard & Sontag

Back 26

-Prenatal hearing.

-Startle responses to loud sounds.

-Can experience prenatal hearing loss.

Front 27

Amniotic fluid in a newborns ears leads to ______ ______ in the first few days.

Back 27

Rapid Improvement.

Front 28

Frequency

Back 28

-Pitch.

-Range 20-20,000 Hz.

-Middle C 262 Hz.

-Most sensitive 100-4000 Hz.

-Human speech 200-2000 Hz.

Front 29

Amplitude

Back 29

"loudness/intensity"

Front 30

Decibels are ______(10dB=2X).

Back 30

Logarithmic. 50dB is 2x loud as 40dB.

Front 31

Thresholds of audition (minimum levels)

Back 31

-Infants 20-30 dB (hear all normal conversation).

-Adults 5-10 dB.

-Age 55 15-20 dB.

-Age 75 30 dB.

Front 32

T or F: Pitch discrimination improves with age.

Back 32

True.

Front 33

Less than ______ of people have hearing problems before age 55.

Back 33

20%.

Front 34

Taste buds are present and functional before ______ month pc.

Back 34

4th.

Front 35

______ ______ is one of the sweetest naturally occurring substances.

Back 35

Breast milk.

Front 36

Babies dislike ______ and ______ and prefer ______.

Back 36

Sour, bitter, sweet.

Front 37

Measures of Taste

Back 37

-Facial expression.

-Sucking rate.

-Duration.

-Swallowing.

-Spitting.