Exam 5: Physical and Cognitive Development in the First Two Years

Children cannot effectively coordinate all of the perceptual­motor skills needed to feed themselves with a spoon without spilling until they are 2 years old.

Which of the following statements might Piaget have made about the new modes of thought that occur near the end of the second year of life?

According to Piaget, the final stage of sensorimotor development is associated with:

Compared to 1­year­olds, how long would 2­year­olds look at an image of a simple visual display?

Evidence from Rovee­Collier's research suggests that memory development is BEST described as:

Which of the following developments occur in the brain toward the end of infancy?

The ability to recognize objects and events that have been previously experienced is called:

We can tell that children are using representational thought when they:

Which of the following correctly describes the order of the phases in the process of attention?

Infants in the first year of life have very little understanding of cause­and­effect relationships.

Psychologists generally agree on the ages at which children acquire various cognitive milestones.

Describe the major changes that occur in infants' motor development during the first two years of life.

Being able to think about the relations between objects without actually acting on them physically is, according to Piaget, evidence that children are:

The violations­of­expectations procedure relies on infants' tendencies to:

Which of the following would be evidence to support the conclusion that an infant made an A­not­B error due to motor perseveration?

Piaget observed that 8­ to 12­month­old infants will continue to search for an object where they last found it (Position A), even when they are shown the object being moved to a new location (Position B). He called this the "A­not­B error." Recent research now shows that their difficulty in searching for objects may be due in part to:

By 24 months of age, increased manual dexterity helps children to:

A condition in which infants grow at a slower rate than is typical is called:

Which of the following is a statement about cognitive changes during the first year of life?

Studies of children adopted from unstimulating Romanian orphanages clearly showed that the children: