Exam 7: Early Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Development

Conservation is the understanding that:​

________ thought is characterized by the use of symbols to represent objects and relationships among them.

Focusing on only one dimension at a time, a characteristic of preoperational thought identified by Piaget's cognitive developmental theory, is known as _________.

Which of the following activities involves fine motor skills?​

Which of the following is true about childhood immunizations?​

Skipping is a fine motor skill and develops later than all gross motor skills.

Explain the major illnesses that occur in early childhood.

_________ refers to the belief that environmental features were made by people.

_________ refers to the application of regular grammatical rules for forming inflections to irregular verbs and nouns.

In right-handed individuals, the right hemisphere of the brain is superior in _____.

Which of the following holds true for children moving from infancy into their second and third years?​

Class inclusion tasks are difficult for the preoperational child because:​

The corpus callosum is a thick bundle of nerve fibers that:​

At two years of age, the brain already has attained 75% of its adult weight.

Encopresis happens more during the day than at night.

Briefly describe the nutritional needs of preschool children.

Infants and young toddlers find it more difficult to recover from brain damage than adults because their brain has not developed plasticity yet.

Which of the following is a limitation of assessing memory in young children?​

Which of the following is true about imaginary friends?​

Children understand passive sentences before active ones.