Intellectual Development

The senses begin functioning after birth

• True

• False

Sensory and motor experiences aid the brain in wiring the thinking an memory centers.

• True

• False

Perceptual learning during infancy does NOT involve ____

• organizing information that comes through the senses

• how fast the brain organizes information

• the way babies react to different stimuli

• giving names to people and objects

Ability to understand that people, objects and places still exist even when they are no longer seen, felt, or heard

• Implicit memory

• object permanence

• parentese

• cognition

A baby will have binocular vision even if one or both eyes drift off focus.

• True

• False

How infants learn is completely different from what infants learn

• True

• False

Babies show preferences for certain objects, such as ______

• moderately complex over simple objects

• stable over slow moving objects

• solid-colored over patterned objects

• 2-D over 3-D objects

Brain wiring for language skills occur in a different order for each infant.

• True

• False

In most environments, babies can match the amount of stimulation to fit their own needs

• True

• False

In the first stage of intellectual development, Piaget believes that infants learn primarily through their _____

• parents

• memories

• senses and motor skills

• own reasoning