Research on infants' coordination of senses has shown:
a. infants have no ability to coordinate senses until they are one year of age.
b. infants can coordinate sensory information at birth.
c. infants can typically coordinate sensory information by one month of age.
d. infants can coordinate visual and auditory information early on, but not visual and tactile information.
Question 2Treatment for childhood depression focuses on:
a. cognitive behavioral therapy.
b. antidepressant medications.
c. encouraging children to do enjoyable things and to develop social skills.
d. all of these
Question 3Research on language development shows that:
a. infants are born prewired to learn their native language.
b. children are born able to speak any language and this ability never goes away.
c. children are born ready to learn any language but quickly adapt to their native language.
d. Children cannot discriminate the sounds of any language until about 2 years of age.
Question 4There is evidence that depressed children and adults underutilize the neurotransmitter ____.
a. estrogen c. testosterone
b. serotonin d. none of these
Question 5In the habituation method:
a. infants show new interest in something they have not seen or heard before.
b. infants show recognition by no longer responding to something they have seen or heard before.
c. infants show that they can distinguish parental voices by 4 weeks of age.
d. infants show visual preferences by attending to objects they prefer longer.
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