Exam 5: Infancy: Cognitive Development

Erica is a two-year-old girl. She sees an owl for the first time and asks her mother what it is, and her mother replies that "it is an owl." Now, every time Erica sees a bird she calls it an "ool." This process is called _____.

According to research by Rose and her colleagues, it was shown that, from age to age, individual differences in capacity for visual recognition memory:

Discuss the role of reinforcement in prelinguistic vocalization.

In which of the following substages of the sensorimotor stage does an infant begin to show intentional, goal-directed behavior?

Which of the following is used in the Bayley Scales of Infant Development?

Which of the following is a difference between primary and secondary circular reactions?

In secondary circular reactions, the focus shifts to objects and environmental events.

The mean length of utterance is the average number of morphemes that communicators use in their sentences.

What are mirror neurons? Explain mirror neurons in humans.

Apart from being activated when an individual performs a motor act or observes another individual engaging in the same act, mirror neurons in humans are also connected with _____.

Cognitive development proceeds in the same way and at the same pace for all infants.

Piaget believed that deferred imitation appears at about _____ months of age.

Around the sixth month, an infant searches for an object that has rolled out of sight. In the context of Piaget's stages of development, this is evidence of _________. ​

According to research by Susan Rose and her colleagues, higher visual recognition scores in infancy are related to:

Cooing decreases when parents respond positively to cooing.

Paul is a six-month-old infant. He has a toy that makes a sound when pressed. He repeatedly presses the toy to hear the sound. This is an example of _____.

Which of the following is true of infant memory?

Jim tells his son, "Wear your shoes when you go outside to play." Jim's son cannot produce a sentence like this, but he completely understands his dad and goes to put his shoes on before going outside to play. The fact that Jim's son understands this statement suggests that the words in the sentence fall into his _____.

Infants begin cooing:

Which of the following is an accurate statement about object permanence?