Exam 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood

Phonological awareness is __________.

The leading cause of childhood mortality in industrialized nations is __________.

In addition to acquiring vocabulary and grammar,4-year-old Kenotae is learning to engage in effective and appropriate communication.Kenotae is learning to master the social side of language,__________.

Casey suffered damage to the cerebellum.Casey will most likely display both __________ and __________ deficits.

Yucatec Mayan parents __________ their preschoolers.

When adults draw with children and point out the resemblances between drawings and objects,preschoolers' pictures __________.

Preschool television programming with slow-paced action and easy-to-follow narratives is associated with __________.

Piaget called children's self-directed utterances __________ speech,reflecting his belief that young children have difficulty taking the perspectives of others.

Children learning Chinese,Japanese,and Korean acquire __________ much sooner and more readily than their English-speaking agemates.

Although rates of left-handedness are relatively high in tribal and village cultures,in a study of one such society in New Guinea,individuals who __________ were far more likely to be extremely right-handed.

Adults often provide indirect feedback about grammar by using __________,which restructures inaccurate speech into correct form.

In the High/Scope Perry Preschool Project,those who attended preschool were __________ likely than their no-preschool counterparts to __________.

For most children,the left cerebral hemisphere __________.

Piaget believed that __________ leads to internal images of experience,which children then label with words.

Which Piagetian principles continue to influence early childhood teacher training and classroom practices?

In Paul's preschool classroom,children are encouraged to choose activities from a rich variety of materials designed to promote exploration.This preschool emphasizes the Piagetian principle of __________.

As children's bodies become more streamlined and less top-heavy,__________.

Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)prompts the thyroid gland in the neck to release __________,which is necessary for brain development and for growth hormone (GH)to have its full impact on body size.

In industrialized nations,childhood diseases have declined dramatically during the past half-century,largely as a result of __________.

Over time,children rely on increasingly effective __________ to solve problems.