Exam 5: Infancy: Cognitive Development

Suppose Feriha, an infant, is familiar with a ball but not with a bat. When she is given a bat for the first time, she is able to distinguish between the two objects. This ability to discriminate between the two objects is referred to as _________. ​

In the context of infants, briefly explain overextension.

Discuss some of the ways in which language growth in young children can be enhanced by adults.

The Bayley scales is the only test that has been developed to screen infants for sensory or neurological problems.

During a study, Rovee-Collier and her colleagues tied one end of a ribbon to a brightly colored mobile and the other end to an infant's ankle. Which of the following did this study measure?

The _________comprises both mental-scale and motor-scale items and also includes a behavior rating scale. ​

Damage to Broca's area in the brain is likely to cause a condition called _____.

Mirror neurons in humans are connected with emotions such as happiness.

Which of the following infants is illustrating the presence of visual recognition memory?

_____ is best described as the imitation of an action that may have occurred hours, days, or even weeks earlier.

The angular gyrus "translates" auditory information, such as spoken words, into visual information.

Explain how Jean Piaget noted an interesting error known as the A-not-B error. Do infants show the A-not-B error under all circumstances?

Lauren learns what a fish looks like from a book. Her mother buys her a goldfish which she keeps in a fishbowl. She then learns that fish swim in water. Lauren tries to incorporate this new event into her scheme of fish. This is an example of _____.

Discuss object permanence in neonates.

Emma is a seven-month-old infant. She repeatedly shakes her rattle because she likes the noise it makes. This is an example of a _____.

_____, such as cooing and babbling, do not represent objects or actions, so infant crying is not a primitive form of language.

In researches conducted by DeCasper & Fifer in 1980 and DeCasper et al. in 2011, it was found that neonates adjusted their rate of sucking to hear a recording of their mother reading a story she had read aloud during the last weeks of pregnancy. This provides evidence that:

Which of the following is true of mirror neurons?

What do Jean Piaget's schemes mean? How are assimilation and accommodation related to schemes?

Chanel is a six-month-old baby. Her mother shows her a teddy bear and she giggles. However, when her mother hides the teddy bear behind her back, Chanel makes no attempt to search for it. From the given information, it can be concluded that Chanel has not yet developed: