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Match the statement to the relevant name.
1


Measured babies' brain activity to determine its role in memory development

2


Early nutritional supplements have positive long-term effects on cognitive development

3


Grasping is guided by proprioception rather than vision

4


Proponent of developmental biodynamics view of infant motor development

5


Used looking chambers to see infants’ visual preferences

6


Used the visual cliff to study infant depth perception

7


Infants develop expectations about future events in their world by the time they are three months of age

8


Investigated how early infants can perceive depth

9


Infants have a biological core knowledge of the perceptual world

10


Demonstrated that children learn to be bilingual with the same relative ease as they learn to be monolingual

11


Found that infants at eight months were able to match gender, sound, and faces correctly in an experiment of auditory and visual intermodal perception

12


Noted that when Canadian hospitals gave free formula samples to new mothers when they were discharged, it decreased the likelihood that the mothers would breast-feed their children

13


Developed a clinical measure to assess potential abnormality in infants

14


Demonstrated detailed memory in two- to three-month-old infants

15


Devised the most commonly used infant intelligence test

16


Studied imitation and deferred imitation by infants

17


No evidence supports reinforcement as responsible for language rule systems

18


Contributed to cognitive theory by observing his three children

19


Argued that explicit memory does not occur until the second half of the first year

20


Believes humans are biologically prewired to learn language

21


Infants' perceptual abilities are highly developed very early in development

22


Demonstrated that infants as young as four months of age have intermodal perception

23


Observed the language environments and language development of children from middle-income professional backgrounds and welfare backgrounds

24


Infants as young as four months expect objects to be substantial and permanent

A)Charles Nelson
B)Rachel Clifton
C)Marshall Haith
D)Eleanor Gibson
E)Ernesto Pollitt
F)Esther Thelen
G)Arnold Gesell
H)Betty Hart and Todd Risley
I)Nancy Bayley
J)Jean Piaget
K)Jean Mandler
L)Renée Baillargeon
M)Eleanor Gibson and James J. Gibson
N)Richard Walk
O)Elizabeth Spelke
P)Elizabeth Spelke
Q)Andrew Meltzoff
R)Elaine Wang
S)Robert Fantz
T)Noam Chomsky
U)Fred Genesee
V)Carol Rovee-Collier
W)Michelle Patterson and Janet Werker
X)Roger Brown







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