For this assignment, you will:
• Read the passage (below) from your textbook.
• Think about the main ideas contained in the passage.
• Make a list of four (4) main ideas contained in the passage.
• In your own words, summarize the main ideas in paragraph form with a minimum
of four (4) complete sentences.
• Do not quote directly from the passage.
Textbook Passage:
Infants show an interest in human faces soon after birth (Sugden and Marquis, 2017). Figure
9 shows a computer estimation of what a picture of a face looks like to an infant at different
ages from a distance of about 6 inches. Infants spend more time looking at their mother’s face
than a stranger’s face as early as 12 hours after being born. By 4 months of age, infants
match voices to faces, distinguish between male and female faces, and discriminate between
faces of their own racial and ethnic group compared with those of other groups (Lee, Quinn, &
Pascalis, 2017; Otsuka, 2017)
As infants develop, they change the way they gather information from the visual world,
including human faces. A study that illustrates this progression recorded eye movements of 3-,
6-, and 9-month-old infants as they viewed clips from an animated film—A Charlie Brown
Christmas (Frank, Vul, & Johnson, 2009). From 3 to 9 months of age, infants gradually began
focusing their attention more on the faces of the characters in the animated film and less on
salient background stimuli.
