Provide a brief overview of sensory development during the infancy period

What will be an ideal response?

A good answer would include the following key points:
• Infants' visual and auditory perceptions are rather well developed, but not as developed as the senses of smell and taste.
• Infants use their highly developed sense of touch to explore and learn about their world.
• Several of the basic reflexes require touch and infants do have the capacity to experience pain.

Psychology

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a. recency b. initialization c. executive d. primacy

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In research on response modulation and psychopathy, psychopaths won or lost money depending on what playing cards appeared. In this research, the impulsivity of psychopaths was studied by

a) making them wait before deciding to continue the game. b) having them estimate the amount of money they had won. c) ratings of their verbal statements during the game. d) all of the above

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