Exam 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood

Abigail is an infant that crawls over to a box of toys that has 10 items and ignores the box of toys that only has five items. What would a core knowledge theorist conclude?

Trevor is an infant who is happily playing with a toy train. His father picks him up for his nap. Trevor fusses because he wants his train. His father takes the train and puts it under the blanket on the floor. Trevor doesn't look for the train and lets his father take him to his room to nap. According to Piaget, what cognitive concept is Trevor not yet capable of?

What is the function of the central executive part of working memory?

Which statement is true regarding attention and memory in infancy?

What research technique is used by most core knowledge researchers?

Which of the following is an example of telegraphic speech?

Newborn infants and adults have the same duration of sensory memory.

When a child experiences cognitive equilibrium, his or her schemas match the outside world and represent it clearly.

The ability of a child to categorize objects helps advance a child's cognition, but it is not a critical part of cognitive development.

Infants tend to categorize less inclusive levels (e.g., types of animals) before they categorize at more inclusive levels (e.g., animals).

"Out of sight is out of mind" is a phrase consistent with the inability to understand object permanence.

In which sensorimotor substage are infants capable of deferred imitation?

How do infants who are considered to be quick learners perform on habituation tasks?

Recent research on the A-not-B error suggests that the reason 10-month-olds fail to recover the hidden toy is not because they lack object permanence but instead:

Mary is a newborn that has been observed looking longer at a ball that bumps into another ball which then rolls onto the floor than she does at a ball bumping into another ball that doesn't move. Which type of theorist would be very interested in this observation?

When infants are assessed on the Bayley Scales of Infant Development III, it is common for their performance to vary considerably from one test session to another.

What other area of development is influenced by an infant's ability to understand object permanence?

Which of the following is not an example of an individual's earliest schemas?

Core knowledge is a concept that occurs during Piaget's sensorimotor substage of tertiary circular reactions.

Which of the following statements is true regarding children's ability to learn words?