Exam 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood

Infants begin cooing in the age of ______.

Which example is of telegraphic speech?

Which sensorimotor substage involves the ability to use words and intellectual images to denote objects and actions in memory?

Which type of information processing falls outside of working memory?

Explain the difference between violation-of-expectation tasks and A-not-B tasks.

Children cannot develop an awareness of the importance of being understood until they approach kindergarten or the age of formal education.

Which infant is experiencing assimilation?

The process of quickly acquiring and retaining a word after hearing it applied a few times is called ______.

What method used to study infant categorization involves a researcher recording an infant's pattern of handling objects when shown to him or her?

A factor that improves an infant's ability to recall events is ______.

Recent research on the A-not-B error suggests that the reason 10-month-olds fail to recover the hidden toy is because they ______.

Categorization is related to information processing because recognizing categories ______.

What type of studies would a researcher employ to gather information about infant memory?

A statement that is consistent with the core knowledge perspective is that infants ______.

A statement that describes language development in infants is that their ______.

Which statement describes the sensorimotor period of reasoning?

Explain how working memory functions.

An unlimited store that holds information indefinitely is called what type of memory?

By which age do children start demonstrating the purpose of speech and the importance of being understood?

According to the core knowledge perspective, infants who are aware of the difference between two stimuli also understand how the two stimuli differ.