Exam 6: Infancy: Cognitive Development

Piaget may have underestimated infants' cognitive competence.For example,more recent research finds that infants develop object permanence,as well as _____________,earlier than Piaget hypothesized.

Which theorist described children's attempts to learn about their environments as "experiments in order to see?"

Brian and Tamara are concerned because their 12-month-old son has yet to speak his first word.As an expert in child development,what do you tell them?

Across time,visual recognition memory remains a fairly stable trait.

A child learns to call a dog "bow-wow" and now calls all animals he sees "bow-wow." This is an example of

Piaget's stages of cognitive development

Theo is 10 months old.His parents overhear him talking to himself in his crib.His language resembles adult speech in sound,with words rising and falling.This is called

Which of the following is an example of a tertiary circular reaction?

Is infant crying a primitive form of language?

When is an infant's first word typically spoken?

What is a circular reaction?

A main reason to test infant intelligence is so that we can

Emma is 7 months old.She shakes a rattle so it will make a noise she likes.This is an example of

How many days after learning a task can a typical 2-month-old remember it?

Which of the following is the correct order of Piaget's stages?

With coordination of secondary schemes,