Exam 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood

Tools of the Mind is a program that is grounded in _____ theory of cognitive development.

In Central European countries,such as Hungary,kindergarten children participate in exercises designed to improve their _____.An eye-contact exercise in which the teacher sits in the center of a circle of children and each child is required to catch the teacher's eye before being permitted to leave the group is an example of this type of exercise.

In general,conservation involves the ability to understand that changes in physical arrangement:

_____ involves an increase in the speed and efficiency of information traveling through the nervous system during brain development in children between the ages of 3 and 15.

When experimenters ask children to judge whether two complex pictures are the same,preschool children tend to use a haphazard comparison strategy,not examining all of the details before making a judgment,exhibiting a lack of:

Nurturing is a key aspect of the _____,which emphasizes the education of the whole child and concern for his or her physical,cognitive,and socioemotional development.

Which of the following did Vygotsky call the "buds" or "flowers" of development?

Identify the factors that can influence the accuracy of a young child's memory.

What are the two most important contributors to height differences among children the world over?

Identify a common nutritional problem in early childhood that results from the failure to eat adequate amounts of quality meats and dark green vegetables and causes chronic fatigue.

Six-year-old Shirley,a witness to a robbery,was asked to testify at the trial.The defense argued that her testimony would be invalid because:

Short sleep duration in children is linked with being:

Leopold asks his pediatrician how many hours of sleep his young child should be getting each night.He is told that _____ hours of sleep is essential for the child.

By the end of early childhood,girls have more _____ tissue than boys.

Sandra has been informed by a pediatrician about the weight gained by her 4-year-old son,Manuel,over the last one year.She learns that Manuel has gained 6 pounds.Sandra should:

In Piaget's theory,failing the conservation-of-liquid task demonstrates:

Young children from _____ families are the most likely to develop iron deficiency anemia.

Identify the inability to distinguish between one's own perspective and the perspective of another.

Two current controversies in early childhood education involve:

The theory of _____ refers to awareness of one's own mental processes and the mental processes of others.