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Terms in this set (28)dynamic systems theory infants assemble motor skills for perceiving and acting. to develop motor skills, infants must perceive something in the environment that motivates them to act and then use their perceptions to fine-tune their movements motor skills represent pathways to the infant's goals reflex allows infants to respond adaptively to their environment before they have had the opportunity to learn rooting reflex occurs when an infants cheek is stroked or the side of the mouth is touched. in response the infant turns its head toward the side that was touched in an apparent effort to find something to suck sucking reflex occurs when newborns suck an object placed in their mouth. this reflex enables newborns to get nourishment before they have associated a nipple with food; it also serves as self-soothing or self-regulating mechanism moro reflex occurs in response to a sudden, intense noise or movement. believed to be a way of grabbing for support while falling, because it would have had survival value for our primate ancestors grasping reflex occurs when something touches the infant's palms. infant responds by grasping tightly gross motor skills skills that involve large muscle activities such as moving one's arms and walking. develops before fine motor skills fine motor skills involve finely tuned movements. buttoning a shirt, typing, or doing any task that requires finger dexterity demonstrates fine motor skills. sensation occurs when information interacts with sensory receptors--the eyes, ears, tongue, nostrils, and skin. perception the interpretation of what is sensed ecological view we directly perceive information that exists in the world around us affordances opportunities for interaction offered by objects that fit within our capabilities to perform activities visual preference method studying whether infants can distinguish one stimulus from another by measuring the length of time they attend to different stimuli--research done by Franz habituation decreased responsiveness to a stimulus after repeated presentations of the stimulus dishabituation recovery of a habituated response after a change in stimulation perceptual constancy sensory stimulation is changing but perception of the physical world remains constant size constancy the recognition that an object remains the same even though the retinal image of the object changes as you move toward or away from the object shape constancy the recognition that an object remains the same shape even though its orientation to us changes accommodation of the eye the eye's ability to focus and maintain an image on the retina--declines most sharply between 40 and 59 years of age presbyopia loss of accommodation dark adaption is slower, older individuals take longer to recover their vision when going from a well lighted room to semidarkness cataracts thickening of the lens of the eye that causes vision to become cloudy, opaque, and distorted glaucoma damages the optic nerve because of the pressure created by a buildup of fluid in the eye macular degeneration disease that causes deterioration of the macula of the retina, which corresponds to the focal center of the visual field pitch the frequency of a sound intermodal perception involves integrating information from two or more sensory modalities, such as vision and hearing palmer grasp grasping an object with the whole hand pincer grip picking up an object with the thumb and forefinger Sets with similar termsChapter 5- Life-Span Development21 terms rebecca_bakotic Lifespan Development Chapter 531 terms kylienic Chapter 551 terms banastasia Life-Span Development Chap. 4 Infancy (Canterbury)27 terms mjwalker09 Sets found in the same folderChild Psychology Ch. 4 (Birth)36 terms bsbd_100 Ch. 3 Forming a New Life77 terms christopher_ryan69 Chapter 2: Biological Beginnings118 terms camebowe Test 1 notes Developmental psych62 terms lrb555 Other sets by this creatorBUAD479 Exam 381 terms Alexa_Shokrian BUAD479 Exam 249 terms Alexa_Shokrian BUAD479 Exam 152 terms Alexa_Shokrian BUAD 441 Exam 261 terms Alexa_Shokrian Other Quizlet setsLaw of Contracts (PRACTICE TEST)60 terms Katlyn_Vaughn5 CRJU 345 Quiz 250 terms Camille_Small Basic Principles of Insurance84 terms TaniaBeth2017 Related questionsQUESTION What is the joint between the proximal and distal phalanges of the 1st digit? 11 answers QUESTION What are the contents of the interscalene triangle? 15 answers QUESTION WHAT IS THE GLAND AND TARGET FOR PROLACTIN 15 answers QUESTION How does the skin regulate heat? 15 answers What is when sensory stimulation is changing but perception of the physical world remains constant?What is perceptual constancy? sensory stimulation is changing but perception of the physical world remains constant. Perceptual constancy allows the infant to perceive ________. its world as stable.
What term describes what occurs when information interacts with sensory receptors?Sensation. - Occurs when information interacts with sensory receptors—the eyes, ears, tongue, nostrils, and skin. - The sensation of hearing occurs when waves of pulsating air are collected by the outer ear and transmitted through the bones of the inner ear to the auditory nerve.
What is the interpretation of sensory information called?Perception is the mental process by which our brain organizes and interprets sensory information, transforming it into meaningful objects and events.
What perception involves integrating information from two or more sensory modalities?This is intermodal perception, which involves integrating informa- tion from two or more sensory modalities, such as vision and hearing (Gergely & others, 2019). Most perception is intermodal (Bahrick, 2010; Kirkham & others, 2012).
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