Exam 6: The First Two Years: Cognitive Development

According to Chomsky, how do infants learn language?

Infants pay attention to _____ more than anything else.

By 8 months of age, infants have an understanding of object permanence.

Javier's mother is a native Spanish speaker, and his father is a native English speaker. He hears both languages equally often and is addressed in Spanish by his mother and in English by his father. If Javier is a typical toddler, how will his language skills be affected by this early experience?

Behaviorists believe that a mother who _____ will stimulate her child's communication skills.

"Do you want to play patty-cake?" Sofia asks her infant daughter. The baby responds by clapping her hands. In which stage of sensorimotor development is Sofia's baby?

Eric just started saying two-word sentences such as "Dada home" and "Doggie go." About how old is Eric likely to be?

One way to determine whether an infant recognizes something is to use a(n) _____ study.

Freddy has been sucking his thumb for a few weeks. His parents would prefer him to use a pacifier, so they begin to offer one. But Freddy rejects the pacifier and continues to suck his thumb. Freddy is most clearly in stage _____ of Piaget's theory of sensorimotor development.

Which theory of language acquisition would say that some 3-year-olds are far more verbal than others because they have heard more language?

After a child's vocabulary has reached about 50 expressed words, spoken vocabulary will build _____ over the next several months.

Elaine communicates with her new baby using child-directed speech, which is also referred to as _____.

Babies in the stage of tertiary circular reactions explore the world, actively experimenting on their environment.

Stage three of sensorimotor development is characterized by trying to continue an experience, whereas stage _____ is characterized by initiating and anticipating events.

James says "more" to mean "I want another cookie." In this case, "more" is a _____.

During Piaget's sixth stage of sensorimotor intelligence, toddlers begin to enjoy playing with inanimate objects as if they were real. This is the beginning of _____ play.

Infants tend to have more language-based explicit memories than adults do.

According to Piaget, a stage-five sensorimotor baby is like a _____.

Piaget referred to toddlers in sensorimotor stage five as _____.

To test an infant's depth perception, mothers attempt to lure their infants to cross a(n) _____.