Exam 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood

What has research shown to be the effects of infants watching media that is directed toward them?

Rebecca is very distracted by her toy bunny when her mother is trying to get her dressed in the morning, so her mother takes the bunny and puts it behind the couch pillow. Rebecca crawls over to the couch and moves the pillow to get the bunny. According to Piaget, what cognitive advance has Rebecca developed?

Individuals spend the majority of time in a state of cognitive equilibrium and only experience disequilibrium when they are learning something new.

Ben is using underextension when he calls ______.

Research shows that media directed towards infants has the effect on infants of ______.

Which term means speech that infants can understand?

Bailey is an infant boy who is sitting in his car seat. He is waving his hands around and his thumb accidentally touches his cheek. He turns his head toward his thumb and puts it into his mouth. He begins to suck on it and finds that he likes it. He quickly learns to put his thumb into his mouth and suck on it whenever he wants to. What sensorimotor substage does this illustrate?

Piaget's idea that children grow by being actively engaged in the world around them is called ______.

Indra's mother is being asked about Indra's play activity. Which of the Bayley-III scales does this relate to?

The information processing approach to measuring infant intelligence is predictive of later intellectual ability because:

Which ability allows children to think and communicate in flexible and adaptive ways?

Jonah is a 6-month-old baby who says ma-ma-ma-ma all the time. Jonah's language ability indicates that he is ______.

Which area is a control processor that directs the flow of information and regulates cognitive activities such as attention, action, and problem solving?

Explain how information processing abilities are assessed in infants.

Grace drops her cup of milk on the floor and looks at her mother while saying, "MILK!" In terms of language ability, Grace is expressing ______.

Children are unable to show gains in attention until they are around the age of 12 months.

Approximately which age does babbling start reflecting the inflection of an infant's native language?

Dr. Cary is interested in researching an infant's ability to categorize. What technique should she choose in order to gather the information she needs?

What research technique is used by most core knowledge researchers?

Which statement supports the learning theory of language acquisition?