Exam 6: Infancy: Cognitive Development

Toward the end of the first year, infants use patterns of rising and falling _____ that resemble the sounds of adult speech.

The Bayley scales is the only test that has been developed to screen infants for sensory or neurological problems.

According to the first substage of the sensorimotor stage, reflexes are _____ at birth.

Research conducted by Corballis in 2010 suggests that__________with the built-in human capacity to acquire language.

Discuss the various structures of the brain that are involved in language development.

Discuss some of the ways in which language growth in young children can be enhanced by adults.

The motor scale in the Bayley Scales of Infant Development assesses _____.

Benjamin is a two-month-old baby who accidentally discovers his thumbs. He waves them around for a while and then sticks one of them in his mouth. He repeats this for a few times. Benjamin's behavior is an example of:

Infants tend to repeat stimulating actions that first occurred by chance. In the context of Piaget's stages of development, this is an example of a__________that focuses on an infant's own body rather than on the external environment.

Which of the following is true of infant memory?

Children learn many vocabulary words, especially nouns and verbs, by imitation.

Infants' first sentences are typically one-word utterances.

By about eight months of age, cooing decreases markedly.

Paul is a six-month-old baby who loves playing with his toy truck. Every time he picks his truck up, he says "ooh," and every time he drops it back on the floor he says "aah." In this scenario, Paul is:

A researcher who contradicts Piaget's theory on cognitive development is most likely to state that:

According to Imuta's research in 2013, infant memory can be improved if infants _____ before their memory is tested.

The mean length of utterance is the average number of morphemes that communicators use in their sentences.

Which of the following represents a primary circular reaction?

Discuss the critical period for language acquisition in children.

In the context of research by Klee & Stokes in 2011, which of the following sentences is true about receptive vocabulary and expressive vocabulary?