Exam 7: Early Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Development

According to Piaget, what follows after children develop concepts?

Which of the following does NOT require fine motor skills?

Infants and preschoolers need less sleep than older children.

Which of the following is a characteristic of childhood illnesses?

How do children who have imaginary companions differ from children without such companions?

You are assigned to set up a recreational camp for preschoolers.Because you have studied the activity level of preschoolers, how many hours per week of large-muscle activities do you organize for the campers?

Autobiographical memory develops at age 4.

What is NOT essential to an understanding of class inclusion?

Children's drawings are always purposeful and have meaning.

How common is the characteristic of right-handedness?

Which of the following provides evidence that people are NOT simply either left-brained or right-brained?

It is rare for children to have imaginary friends.

The contrast assumption assumes that objects only have one label.

According to Vygotsky, what is "inner speech" evidence of?

Which of the following statements would Piaget NOT use to describe the preoperational stage of cognitive development?

You are a new parent.You ask your family doctor about the number one cause of death for children in Canada.What does your doctor reply?

Jeremy stutters.What would be an educated guess about his handedness?

An example of a whole-object assumption is a young child who assumes that the word doggy refers to the dog rather than to its tail, its colour, or its barking.

The cerebellum is involved in muscle coordination.

The grammar explosion is evident when children move from telegraphic speech to speech that includes filler words such as a, an, she, and him.