Exam 4: The Emergence of Thought and Language: Cognitive Development in Infancy and Early Childhood

The best predictor of a large vocabulary in a young child is

Four-week-old Mpho appears to understand that when you push a cup over the edge of a table, the cup will fall to the ground. Such an understanding would provide support for the concept of

While visiting her grandma, Bonolo becomes somewhat restless. In an attempt to distract Bonolo, her grandmother says, 'Why don't you play with the doll in my bedroom?' Bonolo goes to get the doll but returns crying and says, 'That's not doll. Doll has a red dress and sleeps in my room.' Bonolo's behaviour is best explained by

Private speech is a form of verbal communication a child uses when talking to his or her best friend.

A commitment to a teleological explanation means believing that all living things exist for a purpose.

The phrase 'out of sight, out of mind' best demonstrates the Piagetian concept of

Ahmed is a normally developing one-year-old watching a magic act. The magician he is observing has just rolled a ball into what looks like a solid wall. However, when the ball reached the wall, the ball appeared to roll through it. According to research findings by Baillargeon, one would expect that Ahmed's most likely reaction would involve

Kgosi is trying to get his grandson to learn the word 'apple'. His attempt involves showing his grandson an image of an apple on his smartphone, making sure that his grandson is also looking, and then saying 'apple'. Kgosi's effort to teach his grandson is clearly based on

Piaget used the three-mountain problem to assess a child's level of

When first attempting to learn English as a second language, Olga spent a great deal of time converting similar English sounds into Russian equivalents. Later, she spent more time generating new, non-Russian language ideas. Piaget would describe this change as involving

The theory that human infants are born with a rudimentary knowledge of the world and they use their experience to expand this knowledge underlies the ____ hypothesis.

Five-year-old Buhle hears the sentence, 'Buhle, stop fooling around.' He knows all the other words, but he has never heard the word 'fooling' before. The fact that he understands that the word 'fooling' must be referring to what he is currently doing is best explained as involving ____ cues.

Dr Mokoena has a strong belief that global warming is a theoretical myth. In recent years, however, the increased rate of polar ice cap melt has forced him to alter his theory, and he is now a strong advocate against greenhouse pollutants. A Piagetian would most likely describe Dr Mokoena's theoretical conversion in terms of

What is an example of a grammatical morpheme?

By definition, attention determines

On her way to the United States for the first time from her home country, non-English-speaking Yasini has a baby aboard her sea transport vessel. Describe how Yasini's baby will be affected in language development by growing up in a country with a language that is different than Yasini's native language.

In a children's television show, the furniture, house, and appliances can talk and move, and have their own personalities. The fact that many young children view such objects as being 'alive' is consistent with the Piagetian concept of

As an information-processing theorist, Dr Sithole is most likely to conceptualise human cognitive development as a(n)

Scaffolding involves a teaching style in which assistance is always

What would be the most effective way to assess phonological memory in a two-year-old?