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

The inability to see the world from any perspective but your own is called egocentrism.

Effective oral communication involves taking turns and paying attention to other speakers.

Pavlov's research involving a dog, salivation, and a bell is correctly associated with ____ theory.

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

Memory research suggests that

The sensorimotor period of thinking lasts from about age two to age six years old.

Mia likes to kick soccer balls. She has developed a mental structure for kicking that may be applied to different situations. This mental structure for kicking would best be described as

Like most one-year-olds, Antoine sucks reflexively when a sucker is placed in his mouth. For the past few days, Antoine's mother has turned on the television as she gives Antoine his daily sucker. Today, Antoine's mother turns on the television but does not have a sucker to give Antoine. Much to her surprise, Antoine begins to make a sucking motion despite having no sucker. Which theory best explains Antoine's behavior?

Research shows that infants as young as ____ can differentiate two objects from three objects.

While counting four objects, Yoshiko says "1, 2, 4, 8" one time and "2, 1, 4, 8" the next time. This demonstrates that Yoshiko has failed to master the ____ principle of counting.

Thirteen-month-old Hermes has begun to raise the pitch of his voice at the end of a babble. If Hermes is being raised by English-speaking parents, his behavior may reflect the precursor of his ability to

​Improvements in infant memory that occur around six months after birth may be the result of development in the ____ area of the brain.

When two-year-old Paco is visiting his grandpa's farm, he sees his first chicken. His grandpa points to the funny red growth on the chicken's head and says, "It is called a comb." What will Paco's most likely reaction be the next time he sees a chicken?

Baby Lee has just discovered that banging on a big pot produces a loud sound. He then decides to bang on a small pot to see what happens. A Piagetian would predict that such active experimentation with the environment would be most likely to first emerge in a child who is

Macintosh is trying to get his grandson to learn the word "apple." His attempt involves looking at an apple on a tree, making sure that his grandson is also looking, and then saying "apple." Macintosh's effort to teach his grandson is clearly based on

During under extension, a word is used too broadly.

What is an example of a grammatical morpheme?

A diminishing response to a familiar stimulus is called _______________.

Compare and contrast the behaviorist answer, the linguistic answer, the cognitive answer, and the social-interaction answer to the question, "How do children acquire grammar?"

Coo sounds are composed of a single consonant sound.