Infant Responses to Facial Attractiveness Quiz
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What is one event-related potential (ERP) component that shows a larger amplitude response for human faces in infants?

  • Component for hair color
  • Component for type of face (correct)
  • Component for animal faces
  • Component for orientation of face

    • At what age do infants struggle with discriminating facial expressions and recognizing inverted faces?

  • 1 year
  • 3 months (correct)
  • 6 months
  • 9 months

    • Which age group can easily recognize both human and monkey faces?

  • 1 year old
  • 9 months old
  • 6 months old (correct)
  • 3 months old

    • At what age do infants specialize in discriminating between human faces only?

    <p>9 months</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How does experience influence face perception in infants according to the text?

    <p>Infants have more experience with upright and human faces</p> Signup and view all the answers

    At what age do infants typically start showing a preference for faces after initially losing interest?

    <p>3 months</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is one suggested reason for why infants are interested in faces, according to the text?

    <p>Because of their dynamic and interesting characteristics and contrasts</p> Signup and view all the answers

    At what age do infants typically begin to show a left visual field/right hemisphere advantage in face processing?

    <p>4 months</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is one way in which infants' interest in faces at 3 months is influenced, according to the text?

    <p>Experiences with faces as a social stimulus</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Between 2-3 months of age, what do infants start fixating on when looking at faces?

    <p>Internal features</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What happens to infants' preference for faces at around 1-2 months of age?

    <p>It disappears</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do 12-month-olds do when presented with an attractive face along with pleasant visual and vocal stimuli?

    <p>Look longer at the attractive face</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How do newborns demonstrate their ability related to emotional expressions?

    <p>By imitating facial expressions like happy, sad, and surprised</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What influence does the maternal emotional environment have on the development of infants' discrimination ability?

    <p>Positively affects infants' discrimination ability</p> Signup and view all the answers

    At what age can infants categorize some emotions according to the provided text?

    <p>3 months</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In relation to emotional processing, what has been observed about infant girls compared to infant boys?

    <p>Girls are more advanced in emotional processing</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How do 3-month-old infants discriminate between their mother and a female stranger according to the text?

    <p>By differentiating facial expressions like smiling and frowning</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do 12-month-olds do when presented with an unattractive face along with unpleasant visual and vocal stimuli?

    <p>Look longer at the face</p> Signup and view all the answers

    At what age do infants start displaying distinct ERP neural responses to happy and fearful facial expressions?

    <p>7 months</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What stereotype do infants begin to show signs of regarding attractiveness and goodness?

    <p>'Beauty is good' stereotype</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What impact do the maternal emotional environment and infant’s familiarity with the person portraying emotions have on the development of discrimination ability in infants?

    <p>Positive impact</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How are infant girls typically described in relation to emotional processing compared to infant boys?

    <p>More advanced</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is one way in which infants demonstrate their ability to differentiate between emotional expressions, according to the provided text?

    <p>By imitating facial expressions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    At what age does the preference for faces disappear in infants?

    <p>1 month</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a suggested reason behind infants' interest in faces according to the text?

    <p>Preference for dynamic features</p> Signup and view all the answers

    At what age do infants start showing a left visual field/right hemisphere advantage in face processing?

    <p>4 months</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How do infants primarily differentiate between their mother's face and a female stranger's face?

    <p>Smell</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What happens to infants' brain regions related to face processing around 3 months of age?

    <p>They become more specialized</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What influences an infant's interest in faces as a social stimulus at around 3 months of age?

    <p>Experiences with faces</p> Signup and view all the answers

    At what age do infants only need to see the internal features of their mother's face for recognition, according to the text?

    <p>1 month</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why might infants suck more rapidly when watching a video of their mother compared to a female stranger?

    <p>Due to evolutionary processes that ensure proximity between newborns and mothers</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a possible specialized system for recognizing the mother's face that differs from recognizing other faces, as mentioned in the text?

    <p>A system based on her scent</p> Signup and view all the answers

    At what age do infants show more affect looking at their mothers rather than stranger's faces, according to the text?

    <p>2 months</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was observed about the recognition of the father's face compared to the mother's face in infants up to 4 months old?

    <p>There was no preference for father's face over a stranger male's face</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How do infants differ in recognizing a familiar vs novel face if they have had sufficient exposure to the familiar face?

    <p>ERPs differ when seeing a familiar vs novel face with sufficient exposure</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is one observation made about infants at 3 months old in relation to facial expressions?

    <p>They struggle with discriminating between happy and fearful expressions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How do 6-month-old infants differ from 9-month-olds in terms of face recognition?

    <p>6-month-olds easily discriminate between human faces only, while 9-month-olds can recognize both human and monkey faces</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What role does experience play in infant face processing according to the text?

    <p>Infants' face perception becomes more specialized based on what they are exposed to</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is one challenge faced by infants at 3 months old in relation to recognizing faces?

    <p>They have difficulty discriminating between human and monkey faces</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is one consequence of infants having more experience with upright than inverted faces?

    <p>Their discrimination abilities become more specialized for humans than monkey faces</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What elicits differential social responses to strangers in infants as they age?

    <p>Facial attractiveness</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why do individuals prefer prototypes or configurations close to the average in terms of facial attractiveness?

    <p>Closeness to the average prototype</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which internal facial aspect is mentioned as more important in eliciting preferences for attractive female faces?

    <p>Facial configurations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What may infants focus on when presented with a pair of faces, one being closer to the average female face and the other less average?

    <p>Oddity of the less average face</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why do infants prefer attractive females according to the text?

    <p>Closeness to the average prototype</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a factor that plays a part in facial preferences but only sometimes?

    <p>Facial symmetry</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do newborns between 14-151 hours prefer, suggesting experience with faces doesn't need to be extensive to form prototypes?

    <p>Attractiveness</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why do young infants not seem to form prototypes for male faces according to the text?

    <p>Majority have female main caregivers</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What stereotype do infants display where they assign positive qualities to attractive people and negative traits to unattractive people?

    <p>'Beauty is good'</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do 6-month-old infants do when presented with attractive and unattractive female faces respectively?

    <p>Categorize them together</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What ability do newborns and 3-month-olds have in common regarding averaging faces?

    <p>Ability to average faces</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How do infants typically respond after being exposed to familiar male and female faces?

    <p>Female faces are treated as more familiar</p> Signup and view all the answers

    At what age do infants begin to learn to categorize different types of emotions into 'positive' and 'negative' emotions?

    <p>10 months</p> Signup and view all the answers

    At what age do infants start using both features and expressions rather than just features to categorize facial expressions?

    <p>8 months</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What behavior do 4-6-month-old infants exhibit in response to happy facial expressions?

    <p>More positive behaviors</p> Signup and view all the answers

    At what age do infants begin to categorize happy but not fearful faces?

    <p>7 months</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is observed about 4-month-old infants in terms of understanding the affective meaning of different facial expressions?

    <p>They understand the affective meaning of different expressions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    At what age do infants show a preference for looking at the eyes in faces?

    <p>2 months</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of facial features do infants primarily use to process and recognize faces?

    <p>Both featural and configural info</p> Signup and view all the answers

    At what age do infants begin to recognize their own faces through visual preference?

    <p>18-24 months</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is suggested by the text regarding infants' recognition of their fathers' faces compared to strangers' faces?

    <p>Research shows no preference for fathers' faces over strangers' faces up to 4 months old</p> Signup and view all the answers

    At what age do infants begin to show lateralization in recognizing faces by using the right hemisphere more?

    <p>4-5 months</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of mirror self-recognition occurs in infants around 18-24 months?

    <p>They recognize and show interest in their own face</p> Signup and view all the answers

    When do infants typically begin to recognize a frontal smiling view of a female face after seeing it from different angles?

    <p>6 months</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What happens to infants' brain reactions to their mothers' faces after 24 months of age?

    <p>They show stronger responses towards novel faces</p> Signup and view all the answers

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