If 9-Month-Old Hakim Heard Examples of Fluent Speech and Disfluent

question 39

Multiple Choice

If 9-month-old Hakim heard examples of fluent speech and disfluent speech, as in Soderstrom and Morgan's 2007 study, he would spend

• A) equal time looking toward fluent speech and speech containing disfluencies.
• B) more time looking toward fluent than non-fluent speech.
• C) more time looking toward disfluent speech than fluent speech.
• D) more time looking at a speaker where fluent speech is paired with a flashing light.

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Definitions:

Binocular Disparity

The difference in the visual images that each eye perceives because of the eyes’ horizontal separation; the basis of stereoscopic vision.

Convergence

A term that refers to the coming together of two or more things; in a physiological context, it describes the inward movement of the eyes toward each other when focusing on a close object.

Closure

The psychological tendency to seek a coherent and logical ending to an open issue or incomplete task.

Interposition

A visual cue for depth perception that occurs when one object partly blocks another; it can provide information about the relative positions and distances of objects in space.