Exam 8: Cognitive Development in Early Childhood

Parents should read to their children

By age _____, children are quite good at producing complex and grammatically correct sentences.

Three-year-old children do not understand mental activity as different from physical activity.

Which of the following factors affect children's kindergarten readiness?

Children who use private speech _____ tend to be the ones who perform best in difficult tasks.

Danny is Navajo. He learned the Navajo language from his grandmother when he was very young. When he started school, he had to learn English and his ability to speak Navajo had declined by third grade. This is an example of

In Piaget's classic test of conservation of liquid, preoperational children focus on either the height or the width of the liquid in the container. This focus shows

When young children are learning new or difficult tasks, they often use

The amount of information a person can remember or think about at one time is what type of processing?

By _____ years of age, children's grammatical knowledge has already developed to the point that they are able to produce complex sentences.

In the preoperational thought stage, children put marks on a paper to represent people and things during

Thought and logic based on one's personal experience is called

Ms. Chen, a kindergarten teacher, shows her students two identical balls of Play Dough. She then flattens one into a "pancake" and asks them whether the ball or pancake has more Play Dough. Some say the pancake because it is wider; some say the ball because it's taller. All of the children's answers exhibit

The three basic properties of an object are volume, weight, and