Exam 7: Preschoolers: Physical, Neurocognitive, Emotional, Intellectual and Social Development in a Nutshell

Which of the following is an example of creative, constructive play?

Recently, researchers have consistently agreed that improvements do occur when the memories of children who initially lack a concrete- operational understanding of tilted liquids are reassessed later on, once concrete operations have developed.

According to research in 2007, approximately 6 percent of Australian preschoolers are clinically obese and a further 15 percent are significantly overweight.

Which of the following is not a strategy used to memorise lists of difficult or meaningless material?

Piaget's theory of developmental _____________ involves modifying existing conceptual schemes to suit the new information.

On average, healthy children in Australia and New Zealand today gain _____________ to _____________ centimetres in height each year between their second and the sixth birthdays.

_____________ is defined as any operation in the system that has a corresponding opposing operation that cancels or undoes its influence.

The failure to understand quantity conservation is a key feature of which of Piaget's stages?

Piaget proposed that children's thought processes could be thrown into disequilibrium by having arguments with peers.

When Piaget analysed the development of conservation understanding, he discovered that in relation to conservation, the understanding of _____________ is mastered earlier than that of _____________ .

When placed on the floor together, babies as young _____________ as months may poke each other or engage in a tug- of- war. By _____________ months, children with frequent peer contact show signs of rudimentary cooperation.

Adolescents who remember having imaginary companions during early childhood are found to score significantly higher than their peers on measures of creative achievement in scholastic, artistic and literary fields.

Emotional understanding develops along with _____________ emotional during the preschool period.

According to Peterson (2000), early research showed that children who had siblings developed concepts of false belief ahead of only children, however, after the effects of language ability were statistically controlled these differences disappeared.

According to Siegal (1997), _____________ is said to occur during conservation tasks when children who are not sure of the answer change their minds when question wording implies they should.

According to Goodnow et al. (1984), which of the following skills were regarded as expected for a child to develop by American mothers but not by Japanese mothers?

Between the ages of nine and 12 years, the lateralisation of language processing and production becomes more pronounced in the average child.

Most preschoolers have no difficulty completing a task such as placing sticks in order from smallest to largest.

Typically developing and natively signing children show pronounced _____________ hemisphere dominance of activation and heightened activity in the specific areas of the _____________ hemisphere responsible for language comprehension and production.