Exam 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood

__________ sustains the benefits of growing up in an economically advantaged family and can reduce the negative impact of a stressed,poverty-stricken home life.

Although the __________ is biased for language processing,if it is injured in the early years,other regions take over.

According to Vygotsky,children master activities through __________.

Korean toddlers develop object-sorting skills later than their English-speaking counterparts because __________.

Which statement about categorization is true?

A young child makes an underextension error when she applies a new word __________.

Follow-up research on Piaget's sensorimotor stage yields broad agreement that __________.

Mothers talk more to __________ than to __________.

Dr.Hahn believes that language is etched into the structure of the brain.Dr.Hahn endorses the __________ perspective of language development.

__________ control(s)attention by inhibiting impulses and flexibly directing thought and behavior,coordinating information in working memory,and planning.

Nine-month-old Avery can retrieve his ball when his mother hides it under a blanket.Avery has begun to master __________.

Piaget's __________ stage is the most complex period of development.

Which of the following is a toddler most likely to say?

The IQs of 96 percent of individuals fall between __________ and __________.

According to cognitive-developmental theory,a scheme is __________.

__________ can be thought of as a "mental workspace" that we use to accomplish many activities in daily life.

The Vygotskian concept of zone of proximal development refers to __________.

On Monday,20-month-old Raoul watches his brother Carlos stir his applesauce with a spoon.On Thursday,Raoul tries to use a spoon to stir his applesauce.Raoul is using a(n)__________ to imitate Carlos's behavior.

The extent to which parents __________ contributes strongly to early language progress.

Laboratory research suggests that deferred imitation is __________.