An infant plays with a toy block in the dark, so he cannot see it. Later, he is shown a ball as well as the block. He realizes that it was the block, not the ball, that he played with in the dark through:
A) intermodal perception.
B) bimodal distribution.
C) visual localization.
D) interobject recognition.

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Intermodal perception refers to the ability to use information from different sensory modalities to make sense of the environment. In this scenario, the infant is using a combination of tactile and possibly auditory information (if the block made noise when touched) to recognize the block as the same object he played with in the dark.

An Infant Plays with a Toy Block in the Dark