Exam 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood

What do infants' motor schemas transform into as they develop cognitively?

The ability to direct one's awareness is called:

Joanne is an infant who is taking the Bayley Scales of Infant Development. She is asked to drink from a cup, is observed sitting in an upright position, and asked to climb stairs. Which of the scales is she being assessed on?

Rebecca was very distracted by her toy bunny when her mother was trying to get her dressed in the morning, so her mother took the bunny and put it behind the couch pillow. Rebecca crawled over to the couch and moved the pillow to get the bunny. According to Piaget, what cognitive advance has Rebecca developed?

What are infants' earliest categories based on?

Object permanence is a cognitive skill that does not develop until a child is able to walk independently.

Bailey is an infant boy who is sitting in his car seat. He is waving his hands around and his thumb accidentally touches his cheek. He turns his head toward his thumb and he puts his thumb into his mouth. He begins to suck on it and finds that he likes it. He quickly learns to put his thumb into his mouth and suck on it whenever he wants to. What sensorimotor substage does this illustrate?

Which of the following statements is not consistent with the information processing system view?

In the first month of life, infants use reflexes to learn about their world through the process of:

Kenzie's mother is being asked to report on Kenzie's ability to communicate, regulate her emotions, and display certain behaviors. Why is she being asked to report on these things?

Which perspective on language development accounts for children's unique utterances and the unusual grammatical mistakes they make in speaking?

Telegraphic speech is universal among toddlers.

Object permanence is an important cognitive advance because it signifies a capacity for:

The vocabulary spurt in infant language development is considered to be universally experienced by infants in all different countries.

The understanding that objects continue to exist outside of sensory awareness is called:

Which of the following illustrates secondary circular reactions?

Which of the perspectives on language acquisition discusses how culture shapes language acquisition?

Infants prefer to look at number changes over area changes, which is consistent with the core knowledge perspective views of infant cognitive development.

According to Piaget, at what age does an infant develop object permanence?

Which of the following words is an example of underextension?