Chapter 4 quiz

Which of these about Skin-to-skin contact is not true

• calms parents and babies

• beneficial for bonding

• can only be successful with mother figure

• release hormones that relieve stress

Answer explanation

Remember although in most cultures the mother figure is seen to spend the most time with the baby this is not exclusive to the female caregiver

Under 2-3 months infants can already discriminate faces

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Remember newborns have really bad vision intially

Externality effect

• infants direct attention to outside noises

• infants direct attention to external features

• infants direct attention to outside smells

• infants direct attention to external noises

Answer explanation

Due to infants poor vision they focus on the things that differ in their eyes, which include the external features mostly

Newborns prefer own race to other race faces?

• True

• False

Newborns prefer

• New voices since they mainly only hear there mothers

• Songs

• Their fathers voice since it is heard less often than the mothers

• Maternal voice

Infants recognize

• different language sounds

• loud language sounds

• only their native language sounds

• high pitched language sounds

Answer explanation

This has to do with an infants auditorial differentiation. Remember that babies have the ability to discriminate because they are creatures of the world at a very young age

Unified perception is the whole is greater than the sum of its parts

• True

• False

Intersensory redundancy hypothesis states

• modal info presented across two or more modalities

• multimodal info presented across two or more modalities

• Amodal info presented across two or more modalities

Answer explanation

"Modal" is not a thing "Multimodal" is stimuli presented in only 1 sensory modality.

Sensory modalities include

• Vision, audition, olfaction

• Gustation, vision, faction

• Visual, faction, audioton

• body senses, gustation, audioton

Answer explanation

Only one option includes a full list of real modalities. Review your notes if this stumped you.

Audioton and Faction are not real

nociceptors are to pain as _____ is to cones

• movement

• rods

• color

• pigment

Answer explanation

the answer here is color because we are answering what matches with cones as it what is its function.