Exam 7: Conceptual Development

The belief that infants are born with some sense of fundamental concepts is a basic component of:

General ideas or understandings that can be used to group together objects are referred to as:

By the end of the first year, infants are able to categorize objects based on:

The study that compared the spatial skills of aboriginal children growing up in the Australian desert with those of their Caucasian peers growing up in cities demonstrated the importance of:

Parents are LEAST likely to directly teach their children which type of category?

The spatial thought of 3-month-old infants can be based on:

Which of the following categories do children generally not form first?

Differences between the counting abilities of preschoolers in China and United States appear to indicate that:

Which of the following research findings would be most consistent with a nativist perspective on children's development of the understanding of space?

Ted thinks cats have a certain "catness," dogs have a certain "dogness," and horses have a certain "horseness." What concept is he exhibiting?

Preschoolers believe that the essence of a living thing:

Which is NOT one of the general categories that children first begin to understand as a category?

Which of the following statements does NOT support the claim of nativists that children are born with a "biology module"?

Critics of the conclusion that infants understand arithmetic argue that infants instead rely on:

Which of the following is a superordinate level concept?

The debate between nativists and empiricists reflects a fundamental, unresolved question about human nature:

The realization that all sets of a particular number of objects, say 5, have something in common is referred to as:

Describe how pretend play and sociodramatic play are associated with children's psychological understanding and explain why this association exists. Be specific, and provide examples to support your points.

Which of the following pairs would Iris, a 6-month-old infant, be MOST likely to consider to comprise members of the same category?

Joe has an imaginary friend named Samuel. Joe's parents are convinced something is wrong with Joe. They talk to Dr. Ship, a psychologist. She begins the discussion about imaginary friends by explaining which characteristics are associated with children who have imaginary friends. Which characteristic does she NOT include in this discussion?