Exam 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood

The Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children (WISC-III) is divided into which two subgroups?

Evan is getting ready for bed. He knows that he must brush his teeth before putting on his pajamas. What is Evan demonstrating?

Which of the following terms describes a child's sensitivity to the sound patterns that are specific to his language?

A friend tells you that he has very vivid memories of an event that happened when they were two years old. Which of the following statements is probably true regarding this recollection?

Approximately how many words will the average 30 month-old child have in their vocabulary?

You give a three-year-old child a large plastic canister with pictures of blocks on it. The child shakes the canister and it rattles, but when she opens it she finds that it contains large beads. What will the child assume about the expectations of the next person who receives the canister? What is this phenomenon called?

Which of the following is correct with regard to child abuse in the United States?

Who coined the term zone of proximal development and what does it mean?

Define the concept of inflections. What is the most common inflection that English-speaking children will use first?

Holding a pencil to write or draw requires which of the following?

Walking, running, and skipping become more fluid as the activity levels peak between the ages of _________.

Flynn argues that many theorists neglect to include ________ beliefs when they claim a genetic predisposition for intelligence.

In the studies by Flavell (1999), children were presented with a box on which there were pictures of candy. Three and four-year-old children believed that the box contained candy. The children saw that the box contained crayons once it was opened. The three-year-old believed that other children would believe that the box contained crayons instead of candy. This demonstrates which principle?

Which of the following is associated with a higher risk of child abuse?

Which of the following is a type of play that demonstrates cognitive development consistent with the stages identified by Piaget?

Which of the following activities would a two-year-old be LEAST able to do?

Which of the following refers to a child's ability to think about or evaluate the quality of her thinking?

Darius holds his hairbrush to his mouth and sings as if the hairbrush is a microphone. This is an example of what type of play?

How do IQ scores of young children differ from those of older children or adults?

Sylvia loves to play with her toy telephone. When she holds the receiver to her face and calls "Hi!", she is engaging in which type of play?