Exam 5: Infancy: Cognitive Development

Rob hid behind his son's blanket and said "peek-a-boo!" His son looked bored and turned away. Rob stated, "He just doesn't seem to understand that I still exist when he can't see me." What aspect of sensorimotor development is Rob looking forward to?

How do secondary and tertiary circular reactions differ?

Which scale is included in the Bayley Scales of Infant Development?

Infants progress from responding to events with reflexes, or ready-made schemas, to goal-oriented behaviour. What stage of Piaget's cognitive-developmental theory is being described?

A child refers to the "meese" that he saw in the zoo. His mother knows her child saw a moose at the zoo, based on the fact that he knows "geese" refers to more than one goose. What is this child's error an example of?

Piaget theorized that children follow an orderly sequence of stages through cognitive development.

What is the definition of a holophrase?

What is the definition of the expressive language style?

Memory improves dramatically between 1 and 2 months of age and then again by 36 months.

Most children can use 500 words by 18 months of age.

What distinguishes primary circular reactions from secondary circular reactions?

How do a newborn's reflexes develop?

During the first year of life, infants' reflexes are stereotypical and inflexible.

Habituation is exemplified when an infant does which of the following?

What have other researchers found regarding Piaget's stages of cognitive development?

Olivia has learned to call a toy truck "tru." Now whenever she sees any toy with wheels, she calls it "tru." What is Olivia's response an example of?

Tabatha is playing with a ball when it rolls down a flight of stairs and out of sight. She makes no attempt to find the ball. What cognitive-development stage is Tabatha in?

What is object permanence and what abilities does it represent?

Which statement best describes Piaget's cognitive-developmental theory?

Children who use language to label objects are said to have a referential style of language.