Prenatal Development and Infant Perception
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In the context of prenatal development, what is habituation?

  • The gradual reduction in the strength of a response to a repeated stimulus (correct)
  • The process by which the fetal heart rate decreases in response to a repeatedly presented stimulus
  • The tendency of the fetus to show a preference for a particular stimulus over others
  • The ability of the fetal brain to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections
  • What is synaptic pruning in the visual vs prefrontal cortex associated with?

  • The development of depth perception in infants
  • Enhanced learning and memory in infants
  • The establishment of auditory discrimination in infants
  • The refinement of neural circuits by eliminating excess synapses (correct)
  • What is the term used to describe the ability of infants to integrate information from different sensory modalities?

  • Fetal taste experience
  • Violation of expectation
  • Infant-directed speech
  • Intermodal perception (correct)
  • When does the process of synaptogenesis primarily occur in infants?

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