infant and childhood development exam 2 questions and answers graded a+

(ch 5) according to critics of the nativist view of cognitive development, which is a possible alternative explanation of infants' longer looking times during experiments? - correct answers infants' attention may be drawn to perceptual features of the stimulus, rather than reflecting their innate expectations (ch 5) fifteen-month-old keisha watches her caregiver try to move a stack of blocks. but, the caregiver accidentally knocks the stack of blocks over. keisha then tries to move the stack of blocks but does not try to knock them over. this suggests that keisha - correct answers understands the caregiver's intention (ch 5) violation-of-expectation experiments have been used to examine whether infants - correct answershave an innate understanding of the laws of physics (such as gravity) (ch 5) the ________ view asserts that infants have greater innate cognitive ability than piaget assumed - correct answers nativist (ch 5) what is the chronological order of the characteristics of the first five sensorimotor substages as defined by piaget? - correct repeated action focused on objects coordinated sequences of action means-end analysis (ch 5) how might caregiver sensitivity and emotional availability impact an infant's development of social cognition? - correct answerscaregivers can support infants' regulation of emotions, allowing infants to then learn from their social environment caregivers model social interaction and social sensitivity, such that infants in turn learn about others (ch 5) an experimenter finds that 3-month-old ava is better able to discriminate faces when seeing the faces paired with their talking voices compared to seeing the faces alone. this is evidence in support of the __________ hypothesis - correct answersintersensory redundancy (ch 5) a researcher notes that 9-month-old sebastian is watching a picture and his heart rate has steadily slowed down from when the stimulus was first presented. what is the researcher's mostly likely interpretation - correct answerssebastian is processing the stimulus and is in the sustained attention phase (ch 5) what is a way that researchers infer that an infant or child is developing social cognitive understanding? - correct answersthe infant/child is able to identify the false beliefs of others the infant/child starts to use mental state vocab the infant/child is able to perform deferred imitation the infant/child is able to understand the intentions of others (ch 5) the finding that "individiuals who engage in joint attention in infancy tend to perform better on language acquisition tasks in childhood" is an example of - correct answersa cascade from social cognition (ch 5) what are tools that cognitive development researchers use to study infants? - correct answersheart rate monitoring conjugate mobile tasks a-not-b tasks time of looking NOT verbal reasoning tasks (ch 5) _______ is the degree to which something is attractive or noticeable to an infant - correct answersstimulus salience (ch 5) in habituation experiments, the fact that infants prefer to look at something new (novelty preference) is most often interpreted as the - correct answersinfant having encoded a familiar stimulus during habituation and is remembering the familiar vs. novel object (ch 5) according to research on the impacts of socioeconomic environment on infant development, infants from low-income households, on average, are at greater risk of not achieving full cognitive potential. this is most likely the result of - correct answersa combination of less stimulating home environments, poor nutrition, and limited access to learning materials (ch 5) in an approximate number sense experiment, researchers observed that 9-month-old jasmine was able to distinguish number arrays that differed by a ratio of 2:3, while 6-month-old kylie was not. what can we conclude about the 2 infants' number sense? - correct answersjasmine has a more developed approximate number sense than kylie (ch 5) what is the best definition of habituation, as used in the context of infant cognitive development? - correct answersthe processing of information about a stimulus and decline of attention to the stimulus (ch 5) what is evidence that an infant understands goal-directed reaching? - correct answersafter being habituated to a person reaching for a certain toy, baby isaiah looks longer when the person reaches for a different toy (ch 5) how might a proponent of a developmental systems view explain an infant's lack of success in the traditional a-not-b task as described by piaget? - correct answersan a-not-b error demonstrates an infant's limited understanding of object permanence (ch 5) infant ekaterina spends an hour each day watching videos on her tablet. however, she has trouble - correct answers