Exam 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood

A child's first sentences are choppy and comprised of two or three words. What are these called?

What are inflections?

According to Piaget, the infant who reaches up to grasp her moving mobile repeatedly until finally she grabs hold of it is engaging in which technique in the sensorimotor substages?

Your best friend's wife just had a baby. He feels a bit odd speaking in infant directed speech with his newborn. What are some reasons why he should consider doing so?

What would you say to your 12-month-old if you were using recasting and she speaks in one word utterances, saying only "cheese" to tell you what she wants for lunch?

Toddlers who speak using words linked to social relationships rather than objects are demonstrating which style of learning language?

A newborn sticking out his tongue while watching his father do the same is demonstrating their early ability to ______.

Your best friend is expecting her first child. You want to describe to her the current research regarding the importance of reading to toddlers on their developing language abilities. What three things will you tell her?

Five-month-old Averie loves shaking her toy bear in different ways to hear the different bell sounds it makes. According to Piaget, which technique in the sensorimotor stage is Averie demonstrating?

What do children of mothers who use recasting do?

In which of Piaget's sensorimotor substages is an infant who reaches under the couch to get his toy demonstrating?

If every time an infant cries his needs are met by his mother, and so he comes to anticipate that his mother will come to his aid when he needs something. What is this understanding known as?

Children whose parents talk to them often, read to them regularly, and use a wide range of words in their speech.

Jack's babysitter stuck her tongue out at him. Later that day when he was alone with his mother, he stuck his tongue out at her. This imitation that happens later is called__________ .

In order to understand what a child means by a two word sentence, the listener must know what else?

Like their early memories, children's first words are______ ?

What is hierarchical categorization?

Who is the linguist who proposed the nativist theory of language development?

Noam Chomsky believed that everyone has an innate language processor, which he named the Language Acquisition Device or LAD. Which theory of language development is this?

All babies throughout the world do which of the following with regard to language development?