Exam 8: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood

Because they reason transductively, Piaget referred to young children's reasoning as:

The practice of parents using a highly elaborative interaction style with their children has been associated with which of the following outcomes?

Across the world, breastfeeding typically ends by the time children are 2 years of age.

According to Piaget, the three most common errors in early childhood reasoning include all of the following EXCEPT:

Children who take music lessons have advantages over other children in memory capacity and IQ.

Research on children's causal reasoning about events shows that 4-year-old children:

Children's increasing ability to remember events can be attributed to all of the following EXCEPT:

When young children think transductively, they:

Children with autism spectrum disorder tested on false belief tasks:

Which of the following BEST describes the relationship between childhood weight and later health?

Children who were presented with a sponge shaped to look like a rock did not consider it to be useful for wiping up water.

The cultural-context perspective is most compatible with the idea that:

Halloween is likely to be frightening to 3-year-olds because:

Which of the following behaviors demonstrates that 3-year-old Jasmin is not as egocentric as Piaget would have predicted?

A recent formulation of the modularity position, which more precisely delineates the kinds of interaction with the environment that are required for development to occur, is:

The finding that Norwegian children are likely to become better skiers than swimmers exemplifies the way that culture influences children's development by:

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of short-term memory?

Event schemas are called:

Piaget described thinking during early childhood as:

What is the process through which new bone tissue is formed at the growth plates of long bones?