Exam 7: Conceptual Development

The study that examined kindergartners' ability to point to various locations in their classroom while imagining a walk from their seat to the teacher's chair demonstrated that:

On false-belief problems, children who do not yet have a complete understanding of the relation between their own beliefs and others' beliefs:

The development of a theory of mind is severely impaired for:

The finding that babies smile less at rabbits than they do at people indicates that they:

Choose one of the following categories: furniture, vehicles, tools, clothing, food. For the chosen category, think about how a child's concept of this category might progress from infancy through the preschool years, and answer the following questions. (a) What might the initial concept of the category entail and what are some examples of the likely members of this initial category? (b) Based on what information would this initial conception be formed? (c) Can you think of any category members that are not likely to be included in a child's initial concept? (d) Can you think of any examples of objects the child might include that adults would not consider to be a member of the category? (e) Why might a child make these errors? (f) As the child's conception matures, how will these errors be corrected?

Cases where adults who were born blind and have surgery to restore sight have provided evidence that:

Which of the following lists is an example of a category hierarchy?

Discuss how nature and nurture influence the development of an understanding of number. Give examples to support your discussion.

The most basic sense of time is:

Compared to other children, those who engage in greater-than-average levels of pretend play tend to be:

The coding of spatial locations relative to one's own body, without regard to surroundings, is referred to as:

Which of the following questions would a preschooler be LEAST likely to ask about a tractor trailer?

Which level of category hierarchies do children usually learn first?

Sheira, a 2-year-old, is told a story about a girl named Brenda. Brenda is looking for her favorite doll. Although Brenda thinks the doll is under the bed, it really is in the kitchen cabinet. When Sheira is asked where Brenda will look for her doll, Sheira will most probably predict that Brenda will look in which location?

Telling children that ____is likely to influence the age at which children understand that plants are alive?

Nine-month-olds pay more attention to rabbits than they do to inanimate objects, but they smile less at rabbits than they do at people. What does this indicate?

The development of a theory of mind is MOST severely impaired for:

When 7-year-old Jacob is asked why giraffes came to exist, he is MOST likely to use_____ in his explanation.

Which of the following statements about 1-year-olds' understanding of emotions is true?

The study examining infants' ability to do simple arithmetic that showed infants one or two dolls and then either added or subtracted a doll from behind a screen demonstrated that infants were surprised when which of the following events occurred? •A doll is placed behind a screen where another doll was initially present, and lowering of the screen reveals a single doll.