PSYC 302 FINAL EXAM NEWEST ACTUAL E XAM

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PSYC 302 FINAL EXAM NEWEST ACTUAL E XAM

TEST BANK 300 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT

DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS )

|ALREADY GRADED A+

What is stereopsis? - ANSWER- process of combining neural signals to result in depth perception; emerges at 4 months

What is monocular depth cues? - ANSWER- Depth cues perceieved by only one eye; 6-7 months

What is auditory localization - ANSWER- the perception of the spatial location of a sound source

Do infants prefer infant-directed speech or sinigng? - ANSWER- They prefer infant-directed singing

How do infants start developing the touch sense - ANSWER- through oral exploration; i.e. sucking on fingers and toes

What do infants do at 4 months to further their touch sense? - ANSWER- using hands/arms to touch thus developing mental maps of bodies

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What is perceptual narrowing? - ANSWER- developmental changes in which experience fine-tunes the perceptual system

What is intermodal perception? - ANSWER- the combining of information from two or more sensory systems

What is the McGurk effect? - ANSWER- an example of auditory-visual intermodal perception

Is motor reflexes dependant on culture? - ANSWER- Yes

• i.e. countries where sitting independently is encouraged vs.

discouraged

What is the impact of diapers on walking behaviours - ANSWER- when naked, infants displayed mature walking behaviour versus when wearing diapers

What are affordances? - ANSWER- the possibility that an action offers/that an object offers

• i.e. door handle gives possibility to open the door; smaller objects give

possibility to pick them up

How does reaching start off for infants? - ANSWER- initially limited to clumsy swings towards objects they see

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How can reaching benefit infants? - ANSWER- more experience reaching objects, improves 3D object processing

What are scale errors? - ANSWER- young children's inappropriate use of an object due to their failure to consider information about the object's size

What are grasp errors? - ANSWER- when a child tries to pick up an object from a 2D representation (like a photo)

What are media errors? - ANSWER- When a child uses interactive technology to try and pass an object through a screen

What is habituation? - ANSWER- decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation

What does habituation reveal about infant learning? - ANSWER- the speed of habituation relates to information processing speed

What is statistical learning? - ANSWER- Detecting statistically predictable patterns in environment

i.e. the regularity with which the sound of Mom's voice is followed by her face

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What is the Godilocks Effect for infant learning? - ANSWER- avoiding patterns in statistical learning that are too hard/esasy

What is classical conditioning? - ANSWER- Learning through association

(i.e. infants meal through breast, so sucking motion at sight of breast)

What is the unconditioned stimulus? - ANSWER- A stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous conditioning

(i.e. nipple in mouth)

What is unconditioned response? - ANSWER- a reflexive response that is elicited by the unconditional stimulus

(i.e. sucking motion)

What is the conditioned response - ANSWER- the orginally reflexive response that comes to be elicited by the conditioned stimulus

(i.e. anticipatory sucking movement)

What is Operant conditioning? - ANSWER- learning relation between one's own behaviour and the consequenes

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