Exam 5: Infancy: Cognitive Development

One-month-old babies, as parents are well aware, have an unlearned but highly effective form of verbal expression that is _____.

Explain the psycholinguistic theory of language acquisition.

Emma is a seven-month-old infant. She repeatedly shakes her rattle because she likes the noise it makes. This is an example of a _____.

Explain the nativist view of language development.

Primary circular reactions focus on an infant's own body rather than on the external environment.

Infants begin cooing _______.

Erica is a two-year-old girl. She sees an owl for the first time and asks her mother what it is, and her mother replies that "it is an owl." Now, every time Erica sees a bird she calls it an "ool." This process is called _____.

Which of the following represents a primary circular reaction?

Discuss the Bayley scales.

Research suggests that mirror neurons are connected with _________.

Which of the following is an accurate statement about object permanence?

Jamie, an infant, sticks his tongue out when he sees his father do the same. While doing this, which of the following is most likely to have occurred?

In the context of infant development, extinction is the decrease in frequency of a response due to absence of reinforcement.

Cognitive development proceeds in different ways across infants.

Which of the following is true of mirror neurons?