Emilio, an 11-Month-Old Infant, Is Sitting on the Floor in a Nearly

question 55

Multiple Choice

Emilio, an 11-month-old infant, is sitting on the floor in a nearly empty room. On each side of him is a television screen. Every 10 seconds, an interesting picture appears on the screen on his right. The screen on his left remains blank. Emilio is then rotated so that the screen that has been showing the interesting pictures is now on his left. Where will Emilio look in anticipation of the interesting picture?

• A) directly in front of him
• B) to his left
• C) to his right
• D) behind him

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Definitions:

Detecting Stimulus

The process by which organisms identify and respond to environmental changes or signals.

Recognizing Stimulus

The act of identifying a specific stimulus from a set of similar stimuli, based on prior experience or knowledge.

Sensation

The process by which sensory receptors and the nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment.

Bottom-Up Processing

An approach where perception begins with the stimuli whose reception is made by sensory receptors, leading to higher-level processing.