Exam 6: Infancy: Cognitive Development

Infants coo when they are _____.

Screening infants does not help detect early signs of sensory or neurological problems.

Jim tells his son, "Wear your shoes when you go outside to play." Jim's son cannot produce a sentence like this, but he completely understands his dad and goes to put his shoes on before going outside to play. The fact that Jim's son understands this statement suggests that the words in the sentence fall into his _____.

Memory improves dramatically between five to ten years of age and then again by the age of 18.

Which of the following is a criticism of Piaget's theory on cognitive development?

Which of the following is a difference between primary and secondary circular reactions?

During a study, Rovee-Collier and her colleagues tied one end of a ribbon to a brightly colored mobile and the other end to an infant's ankle. Which of the following did this study measure?

Which of the following is a symptom of Wernicke's aphasia?

Which of the following is a similarity between cooing and babbling?

Piaget believed that deferred imitation appears at about _____ months of age.

Which of the following is an accurate statement about object permanence?

Erica is a two-year-old girl. She sees an owl for the first time and asks her mother what it is, and her mother replies that "it is an owl." Now, every time Erica sees a bird she calls it an "ool." This process is called _____.

According to studies conducted by Pelphrey et al. in 2004 and Rose et al. in 2011, memory improves dramatically between _____.

According to research by Pugh et al. in 2013, problems in the angular gyrus area of the brain can cause problems in _____.

According to studies conducted by Kibbe in 2013 and Yermolayeva & Rakison in 2014, the development of object permanence is tied into the development of infants' _____.

Explain the nativist view of language development.

Emma is a seven-month-old infant. She repeatedly shakes her rattle because she likes the noise it makes. This is an example of a _____.

When infants babble, they tend to produce:

The angular gyrus "translates" auditory information, such as spoken words, into visual information.

Julia was working on her laptop one day and her 18-month-old daughter was sitting on her lap. A week later, when she was working on her laptop again, her daughter reached out from her lap and started pressing the keys of the laptop. In this scenario, Julia's daughter is displaying: