Exam 6: Cognitive Development in Infancy

Wayne's father hung a bright yellow tennis ball over his crib and dangled it whenever he stood by him.Within a day or two of doing this,Wayne was seen kicking his legs in the air to reach the ball successfully.Wayne's action is an example of the _____ substage given by Piaget.

Explain the role of Broca's area and Wernicke's area with regard to language.

_____ is rephrasing something the child has said by turning it into a question or restating the child's immature utterance in the form of a fully grammatical sentence.

_____ refers to the units of meaning involved in word formation.

Who is administered by the Bayley Scales of Infant Development?

Jason fell of his bicycle and hit his head against the pavement when he was six years old.Though the doctors did their best to repair any brain damage he incurred,Jason sustained severe injuries that left him unable to understand language.Jason is able to speak,but his sentences make no sense and do not aid communication.From the information provided in the scenario,we can infer that the brain damage Jason suffered affected his

What are the salient features of the core knowledge approach?

_____ is defined as the decreased responsiveness to a stimulus after repeated presentations of the stimulus.

In Piaget's theory,_____ are actions or mental representations that organize knowledge.

_____ is a central feature of cognitive development,involving the retention of information over time.

In English,the sound represented by the letter p,as in the words pot and spot,is a

Which of the following is NOT one of the best predictor's of a child's vocabulary growth?

_____ in Piaget's theory is the grouping of isolated behaviours and thoughts into a higher-order system.

Child-directed speech involves

Describe the nature-nurture controversy in relation to the cognitive development of infants?

What is labeling?

_____ allows infants to learn about and remember characteristics of a stimulus as it becomes familiar.

Lillian gave her class of 12 students a sentence-making exercise in her English class.She provided the students with 7 words and instructed them to create as many sentences as they could with this set of words only.Lillian's exercise tests

Long before infants speak recognizable words,they produce a number of vocalizations.What are the functions of these vocalizations?

Cognitive flexibility and better inhibitory control are both linked to higher levels of