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

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

Four-week-old Dixie 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

Which number illustrates the fact that in English, numbers do not all follow a regular naming pattern, thus making learning to count more difficult in English than in some other number systems?

Dr. McCoy is attempting to determine the zone of proximal development for Jim when Jim works on complex mazes. In order to do so, Dr. McCoy must measure Jim's personal performance on the maze and

Provide an example of how egocentrism, animism, centration, and appearance as reality might affect the actions or thoughts of a child.

When discussing the acquisition of grammar, which type of theorist would be most likely to say, "Context and genetics are overrated, what really matters is imitation and reinforcement?"

A child whose vocabulary is dominated by names of objects, actions, or persons is said to have a(n) ____ style.

Define and provide an example of overextension, underextension, a referential style, an expressive linguistic style, and telegraphic speech.

Which statement by a young child would indicate that she is using an expressive style?

Which is a legitimate criticism of Piaget's theory?

Bob is a normally developing 18-month-old. According to Piaget, Bob is most likely in the ____ period of cognitive development.

In what way are newborns more linguistically sophisticated than the average adult?

Coo sounds are composed of a single consonant sound.

Houdini is a normally developing 1-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 Houdini's most likely reaction would involve

Infant Timmy has been babbling for several months. What is his next likely linguistic milestone?

Federer is trying to implement a scaffolding style into his teaching of tennis to Venus, who is having difficulty, and to Serena, who is doing very well. To do this, Federer must

Preschoolers who watch the television show Dora the Explorer have been shown to ____ in kindergarten than children who have not watched the show.

Which child (identified here by player name) is most likely using private speech while playing a video game?

Three-year-old Hamid knows what the words "cat" and "dog" mean. One day his babysitter comes in with a box of kittens and a hamster and says, "Isn't he furry?" Since Hamid does not know the words "hamster" and "furry," he will most likely

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