Exam 3: Tools for Exploring the World

Preschooler Tommy has identified his rubber boots, slippers, and sneakers as "things I wear on my feet." According to Piaget, how is Tommy understanding his world?

Anna, who has not seen her nephew John since he was born, is surprised to see the 12-month-old standing upright and taking a few steps. In view of this accomplishment, how would we now categorize John?

What theory says that human infants are born with a rudimentary understanding of the world and they use their experience to expand this knowledge?

In what way are newborns more linguistically sophisticated than the average adult?

Baby Doreen accidently rolled off the sofa onto the floor, and she sustained damage to the frontal cortex of her brain. As a result, what damage will baby Doreen have sustained to her brain?

What do we call the processes in which children acquire new words to referents at such speed that they cannot be considering all meaning for the new word?

What is the correct sequence (from first to last) of Piaget's stages of cognitive development?

Yvette is a malnourished child. If her parents are typical, how will they most likely react?

Which of the following phrases would complete the analogy, "Assimilation is to accommodation as"?

In traditional eye tests, a person is shown a chart with a set of letters in a line that get progressively smaller near the bottom of the chart. What do such tests directly assess?

At birth, Blythe's brain weighs 1 kilogram (2 pounds). By the time Blythe is an adult, what will her brain most likely weigh?

What do we call the unique sounds that are combined to create spoken words?

When three-month-old Rosita says "ahhhhhhhh," what is she doing?

Lily is trying to get her 6-month-old son, Sam, to smile whenever he sees her. In order to accomplish this, Lily has begun giving Sam a cookie (something he likes) whenever he smiles at her. What is Lily using when she attempts to affect Sam's behaviour in this way?

Baby Julie's toes fan out when her daddy touches the sole of her foot, stroking it from heel to toe. What is the name for this newborn reflex?

Newborn Nate is hungry. If he is typical of most newborns, what will Nate exhibit in order to communicate this hunger?

Which route most accurately depicts the flow of information from one neuron to another?

George is having a test in which his brain's electrical activity is being measured by the wearing of electrodes that are placed on George's scalp. What is the name of this test?

Gina is studying how blood flows through the brain when people listen to different kinds of music. Which sort of research tool is she most likely using in her study?

Preschool children with "naive biology" tend to believe that living things have specific properties. Which of the following is a specific property?