Exam 7: Early Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Development

More than 13 million children around the world die each year from six diseases, including pneumonia, diarrhea, measles, tetanus, and whooping cough. What is the sixth disease?

Which of the following is an example of an overregularization error commonly made by a young child?

According to Vygotsky, what is "inner speech" evidence of?

How do younger preschoolers differ in their play habits compared with older preschoolers?

Pragmatics is more difficult when children are egocentric.

Worldwide, millions of children die each year. What is one of the six leading causes of death for nearly two-thirds of these children?

What are gross motor skills?

Elizabeth is 2 years old. What motor skill can she accomplish?

At 2 years of age, the brain already has attained 75% of its adult weight.

What is the impact of television viewing on children?

Saying "the moon goes away during the day because it is afraid of the sun" is an example of animism.

What does Health Canada recommend as the focus of a child's diet?

How do boys' height and weight gains compare with girls' height and weight gains during early childhood?

Terry's daughter has sleep terrors. What would a sleep expert tell Terry about sleep terrors?

Sleep terrors usually occur during REM sleep.

How do children who have imaginary companions differ from children without such companions?

What is fast mapping?

A grandmother is looking at the scribblings made by her young grandchildren. She asks you whether they hold any meaning. What is most likely to be your response?

Which statement characterizes left-handedness?

Which statement would Piaget use to describe the preoperational stage of cognitive development?