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

When presented with a strong or unfamiliar stimulus, humans will automatically attend to the stimulus. This reaction is referred to as a(n) _____ response.

When a word is used too broadly, ____ is taking place.

Describe three limitations of Piaget's theory, according to critics.

The ____ principle of counting states that there must be only one number name for each item counted.

Two-year-old Sam's limited vocabulary consists of words like "book," "dog," and "hat." Apparently, Sam

Piaget used the term ____ to describe the process by which new experiences are easily incorporated into existing schemes.

During a power outage, Blair does not want to finish eating her vanilla ice cream because, as she put it, "When the lights went out, the ice cream turned black, and I don't like black ice cream!" Blair is in the ____ stage of development.

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

According to the _____ principle, number names need to be counted in the same order.

Which statement concerning Piaget's theory is true?

According to Piaget, when a new experience is readily incorporated into an existing scheme, _____ is occurring.

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

Piaget referred to the psychological structures that organize experience as _____.

_____ conditioning occurs when a neutral stimulus comes to elicit a response originally produced by a different stimulus.

Piaget used the three-mountain problem to assess a child's level of

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

Barry walks up to his nine-month-old son and says (very slowly and with major fluctuations in his voice's pitch and loudness), "Ohhhhhhhhh, are you Daddy's little baaaaaaaby?" Barry is illustrating