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 (C)</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 (B)</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 (A)</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 (B)</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 (C)</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 (A)</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 (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>It disappears (A)</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 (A)</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 (D)</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 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>3 months (B)</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 (C)</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 (B)</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 (D)</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 (C)</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 (A)</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 (C)</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 (A)</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 (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>1 month (B)</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 (A)</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 (B)</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 (D)</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 (B)</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 (D)</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 (A)</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 (A)</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 (A)</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 (B)</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 (C)</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 (B)</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 (C)</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 (A)</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 (B)</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 (B)</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 (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Facial attractiveness (D)</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 (B)</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 (C)</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 (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why do infants prefer attractive females according to the text?

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

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

<p>Facial symmetry (B)</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 (D)</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 (C)</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' (D)</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 (A)</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 (B)</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 (C)</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 (C)</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 (C)</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 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>7 months (D)</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 (A)</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 (A)</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 (A)</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 (D)</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 (B)</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 (C)</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 (D)</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 (C)</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 (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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