Infant Development Class Quiz 1

What is the ability to register sensory information called?

• Perception

• Habituation

• Attention

• Discrimination

At what age does selective attention emerge in infants?

• 1 month

• 3 months

• 6 months

• 2 months

What is the term for using sensory information and previous knowledge to make sense of stimuli?

• Attention

• Perception

• Discrimination

• Habituation

Which is NOT included in infant sensation?

• Touch

• Hearing

• Taste

• Balance

What is the term for when infants become used to a stimulus and recognize it as a familiar pattern?

• Perception

• Attention

• Habituation

• Discrimination

At what age can infants start to discriminate between different words?

• 3 months

• 7 months

• 12 months

• 5 months

What do neonates and infants use to detect word boundaries and understand sentences?

• Prosody and intonation

• Stress of words

• Phoneme contrasts

• Word comprehension

What do newborns lose the ability to do as they grow older?

• Detect phoneme contrasts

• Understand sentences

• Produce words

• Perceive prosody

What do infants prefer in the prosodic patterns of adults?

• Exaggerated pitch/intonation contours

• Lower pitch

• Faster tempo

• Longer MLU

What is another term for infant-directed speech?

• Motherese

• Baby talk

• Infant language

• Child-directed speech