Describe the newborn's sensory and motor abilities.
What will be an ideal response?
Newborn infants can see, although their vision seems to be much blurrier than that of adults. Their visual attention is typically focused on objects that exhibit movements, high contrast, large elements, and sharp contours. They seem to pay particular attention to human faces, and they exhibit size constancy but not depth perception. Newborns hear poorly but prefer the sound of human voices, particularly the type of speech we call baby talk. Newborns' senses of smell and taste are less acute than adults', but they do seem to prefer sweets and the smell of their mothers if breast-fed.Infants' motor skills are also limited, but they do possess certain reflexes that enhance their chances of surviving. These reflexes include the grasping reflex, the rooting reflex, and the sucking reflex. Infants' learned motor skills develop quickly, and this development occurs due to both maturation and experimentation that allows them to roll over, sit, crawl, stand, and eventually walk.
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Xandra is learning rapidly and storing new memories all the time. For her brain to store these memories, her neurons will have to
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a. psychoanalytic b. client-centered c. rational-emotive d. cognitive behavior