Human growth and development chapter 5 quiz

Compared to younger drivers, older drivers

 

show a decline in motion sensitivity.

 

need to expend more cognitive effort when driving.

 

overestimate the time needed for an approaching vehicle to reach its location.

 

All answer choices are correct.

all

Stella has just returned from the doctor and was told she has cloudy areas in the lenses of her eyes. Stella has

 

glaucoma.

 

dark adaptation.

 

macular degeneration.

 

cataracts.

cataracts

Which reflex involves many responses from the whole body?

moro

Eighteen-month-old Bridger is running in the park when he reaches a steep embankment. He stops, looks up, and then drops to his hands and knees and begins crawling up. This illustrates the concept of

affordances

Fifteen percent of people over 65 are legally deaf, usually due to degeneration of the primary neural receptor for hearing in the inner ear, referred to as

 

the cochlea.

Eleanor and James J. Gibson purport that all objects and surfaces offer opportunities for people to perform activities on them based on each person’s capabilities. They refer to such opportunities as

affordances

In the Gibson and Walk experiment, most of the babies who were encouraged to crawl across the glass over the visual cliff would

 

not crawl across it.

Infants root in order to

 

find something to suck.

Which of the following is used in habituation studies?

 

sucking behavior

 

heart and respiration rates

 

the length of time an infant looks at an object

 

All answer choices are correct.

all

What percentage of adults over 70 years of age have some type of hearing problem?

 

63 percent

Joey is the best batter on his little league team. Which of the following is a consequence of playing organized sports that Joey may encounter?

 

unrealistic expectations for success as an athlete

Playing organized sports can have which of the following negative effects on a child?

 

undue pressure and stress to achieve and win

According to the ecological view of sensory-perceptual development, how do we perceive and eventually represent objects in our minds?

 

We directly and accurately perceive information that exists in the world around us, known as affordances, which guide the way we interact and adapt to the world.

Dr. Dre is interested in how people assemble motor behaviors for perceiving and acting. He is taking a(n) __________ to perceptual development.

 

dynamic systems approach

Baby Mary recognizes the table as in the same shape, even though the table appears in different shapes depending on the angle from which it is observed. This is an example of

 

shape constancy.

Thora's grandson has noticed that Thora uses increasingly brighter colors and larger shapes in her paintings. Thora may be compensating for

 

a reduction in the quality or intensity of light reaching the retina.

Activities that use large muscles develop

 

gross motor skills.

According to dynamic systems theory, how do infants develop motor skills?

 

Infants perceive something new in the environment that motivates them to act. They use their perceptions to fine-tune their movements.

Six-day-old Shayli has been breastfed and is presented with two nursing pads. One is soaked with her mother's breast milk, and the other is clean. Shayli will most likely

 

prefer to smell her mother's nursing pad.

Which of the following best explains why 4-year-old Tanisha might knock over a tower of blocks she is building and start again?

 

She tries too hard to place every block perfectly.

Peak physical performance usually occurs during

20s

Will is going to have surgery to remove a thick layer on his eye that is causing cloudy vision. He has

cataracts