Exam 5: Infancy: Cognitive Development

Tertiary circular reactions in an infant lasts from _____ months of age.

Which of the following is an accurate statement on the evaluation of Piaget's theory?​

Apart from mirroring motor acts performed by an individual being observed, mirror neurons in humans are also connected with _____.

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

What are mirror neurons? Explain mirror neurons in humans.

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

The presence of _____ suggests that children have mentally represented behavior patterns.

When an infant searches for an object that has rolled out of sight, this is evidence of _________ according to Piaget's cognitive-developmental theory.

The pattern and sequence of events Piaget described have been observed:​

By about eight months of age, cooing decreases markedly.

A child is shown two objects for 20 seconds. After this, one of the objects is replaced and the infant spends more time looking at the new object. Which of the following processes does this represent?​

Screening infants does not detect early signs of sensory or neurological problems.

Which of the following substages of the sensorimotor stage serves as a transition to the symbolic thought of the next stage?​

_________ is comprised of both mental-scale and motor-scale items, and also includes a behavioral rating scale.

Infant memory can be improved if infants receive a reminder before their memory is tested.

The critical period is also known as the _________.

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

Some theorists speculate that _________ are connected with the built-in human capacity to acquire language.

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

Memory improves dramatically between five to ten years of age and then again by the age of 18.