Exam 5: Cognitive Development During the First Three Years

According to research cited in the text,when do babies become able to distinguish different speech sounds such as mother speaking two langauges?

At Tiny Tots day care,the caregivers have found that if the infants in their care repeat an action over and over again they will

Which of the following children would be MOST likely to be assessed with the Bayley III Scales of Infant and Toddler Development?

In an experiment,an infant hears a particular sound.The next day,the infant is less likely to respond to that sound than is another infant who has never heard it before.The results of this experiment suggest that infants possess the capacity for

Research on visual-tasks memory demonstrates that very young infants

Which of the following is NOT a concern of the HOME items assessment?

According to some research,a newborn who smiles at a smiling adult is engaging in

Many aspects of cognition are believed to be under the control of or located in which area of the brain?

Implicit memory seems to develop ________ explicit memory.

According to which of the following theories is language acquired by imitation and reinforcement of specific sounds?

Characteristics of early speech include all of the following EXCEPT

HOME scores demonstrated that all of the following were positively related to high intelligence in children EXCEPT

An important function of habituation seems to be

Infants and toddlers seem to be __________ cognitively competent and to show signs of conceptual thought earlier than Piaget thought.

Mindy,who is 24 months old,is beginning to speak sentences with articles and prepositions.She is developing

When an infant is classically conditioned,he or she learns

A baby,who has been given 100 presentations of a high-pitched tone,no longer reacts to the sound by stopping the sucking response.When a low-pitched tone is presented,the baby does stop sucking.This cessation of sucking caused by the new tone is called

Which approach attempts to measure intelligence quantitatively?

Marla finds that rubbing her face against the satin edge of her blanket feels good.She learns to repeat this action to get a pleasurable sensation.According to Piaget,she has acquired a(n)

The best way for babies to learn speech is from