At birth, newborns will typically already prefer listening to all of the following except:
a) their own mother's voice
b) whispered voices
c) particular stories their mother has read aloud
d) their native language
Ques. 2Universal newborn hearing screenings rely on infants' spontaneous responses to auditory stimuli through
a) cochlear implants
b) auditory brainstem responses
c) responses to a mother's voice
d) a startle reflex
Ques. 3Breaking up fluent speech into individual words is known as:
a) statistical learning
b) segmentation
c) habituation
d) joint attention
Ques. 4Which of the following best describes infants' learning of the sounds of their languages?
a) Infants come into the world being unable to perceive most speech sounds, and must gradually learn to hear the differences between sounds in their native language.
b) Because infants can learn in utero, they come into the world being able to perceive only those speech sounds in their native language (and not perceiving nonnative contrasts).
c) Infants come into the world being able to perceive most possible speech sounds, and gradually lose the ability to distinguish sounds that do not occur in their native language.
d) Infants, like adults, can naturally distinguish nearly all of the important speech sounds for the various languages of the world, and this ability does not change with age.
Ques. 5The feature of baby talk that infants seem to prefer over all others is
a) higher pitch
b) sing-song prosody
c) positive affect
d) rhyming
Ques. 6By the time they are six months old, babies have already begun to categorize the sounds of their own language.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Ques. 7Children with autism spectrum disorders generally have normal patterns of language development.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Ques. 8Children of depressed mothers have been shown to
a) learn words at essentially the same rate as children of normal mothers
b) have poorer associative learning of words than children of normal mothers
c) speak with flatter pitch than children of normal mothers
d) have language delays that can have life-long effects
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