Exam 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood

By 5 years of age, many children can quickly understand and apply most words that they hear.

The first areas of the brain to myelinate govern ______.

Longitudinal research on children who attended the Carolina Abecedarian Project or the Perry Preschool Project revealed that at ages 30 and 40 ______.

Plasticity means the brain's ability to ______.

Ty and Staci are the parents of 3-year-old Kandace. They want to know how to facilitate Kandace's memory for various activities and events. What advice would you give to Ty and Staci?

Frankie was in a car accident and suffered a brain injury. According to research on plasticity, what factors will determine how well Frankie's brain compensates for the injury?

Mrs. Lopez is a brain-based educator. When directing her lessons to the left hemisphere, she will have her students ______.

Children's behavior is shaped to conform with the rules of their family, NOT society in general.

Upon hearing a loud burst of thunder, 5-year-old DeShaun exclaims, "The sky is mad and is yelling!" DeShaun's statement is an example of ______.

According to the cognitive-developmental perspective, preschoolers believe that they have control over ______.

Nutritional studies indicate that most children in developed nations ______.

Which child is likely to use more mature forms of private speech?

While observing her grandfather resting quietly in the recliner, 4-year-old Jordan assumes that he cannot be thinking because ______.

Which approach is especially likely to facilitate young children's language development?

Which type of memory is the ability to generate a memory of a stimulus encountered before without seeing it again?

In academically-oriented preschools that have teacher-directed rigid academic programs , children often demonstrate signs of stress.

According to the cognitive-developmental perspective, behavior is 3-year-old Nyah likely to view most harshly?

Following winter break, Ms. Young asks her preschool class what they did over the holidays. Ms. Young is assessing her students' ______.

When speaking, young children tend to leave out words like ______.

The most effective Japanese preschools emphasize ______.