What Babies Know Quiz

What was the historical belief about what babies are born with?

• Advanced cognitive skills

• Innate knowledge of the world

• A 'blank slate' with no innate knowledge or expectations

• The ability to distinguish faces and sounds

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Why did people historically think babies were blank slates?

• Babies showed no signs of learning.

• It was believed all learning came from external experiences.

• Babies were unable to recognize faces.

• Babies lacked sensory processing abilities.

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What does modern research suggest about babies' innate abilities?

• Babies are passive learners.

• Babies are born with expectations about everyday life.

• Babies rely entirely on adults to learn cause and effect.

• Babies cannot anticipate movements of others.

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How do babies naturally collect information about their surroundings?

• By copying adults directly.

• Through innate curiosity and observation.

• By relying on verbal instructions from caregivers.

• By avoiding sensory input until they are older.

What is one skill babies develop in their first year of life?

• Advanced problem-solving skills.

• The ability to recognize faces and process sensory information.

• Abstract reasoning about morality.

• The ability to read written language.

Why might recognizing faces be critical for babies' development?

• It helps them bond with caregivers and learn social cues.

• It allows them to avoid unfamiliar people.

• It teaches them language skills directly.

• It prevents them from focusing on other sensory input.

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What does object permanence suggest about a baby's cognitive abilities?

• Babies can only focus on visible objects.

• Babies understand that objects exist even when out of sight.

• Babies cannot yet form mental representations of objects.

• Babies rely on adults to remind them that objects exist when hidden.

How does early exposure to language sounds benefit babies?

• It allows them to distinguish all sounds throughout their lives.

• It helps their brains specialize in their native language(s).

• It delays their ability to process other sensory inputs like sight or touch.

• It prevents them from recognizing sounds from other languages entirely.

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Why do babies lose the ability to distinguish sounds in all languages by 10–12 months?

• Their brains focus on mastering their native language(s).

• They stop hearing other languages entirely at this age.

• They become less interested in learning new sounds.

• Their auditory systems stop developing after this period.

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How might early exposure to diverse ethnicities affect babies' face recognition skills?

• They will struggle to recognize familiar faces later in life.

• They will maintain the ability to recognize faces across ethnicities longer.

• They will lose the ability to recognize any faces by 9 months.

• They will only recognize faces within their own ethnicity from birth.

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