Exam 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy

The rapid increase in an infant's vocabulary starting at about 18 months of age is called:

The sentence "The chair told the girl to sit down" is _____ incorrect because people know that chairs cannot talk.

_____ have many jobs in grammar,such as marking tense and number.

Research by Renée Baillargeon and her colleagues documents that infants as young as three to four months expect objects to be ????_____ in the sense that other objects cannot move through them and _____ in the sense that objects continue to exist when they are hidden.

Piaget divided the sensorimotor stage of development into _____ substages.

A developmental psychologist studying infants' understanding of object permanence uses a method where infants see an event happen as it would normally occur.Then,the event is changed,often in a way that creates a physically impossible event.The result of this is that the infants look longer at the changed event indicating that he or she is surprised by it.Which method is being adopted here?

Josh is three months old.In which of Jean Piaget's substages of sensorimotor development is Josh?

Research suggests that infants appear to understand the physical law of gravity:

According to the substages of Piaget's sensorimotor stage of development,which of the following statements about the coordination of secondary circular reactions is NOT true?

A _____ is a minimal unit of meaning; it is a word or a part of a word that cannot be broken into smaller meaningful parts.

The understanding that objects and events continue to exist even when they cannot be seen,heard,or touched is called:

As they walk in the park together,Damon's dad points out various objects to him-flowers,birds,butterflies,slides,swings,vehicles,and so on-and helps Damon name each of them.Damon's dad is using _____ to help his son learn language.

As an infant,Mary suffered damage to _____ of her brain.This injury severly affected her comprehension abilities.Even though her speech is fluent it remains incomprehensible.

In which of the following substages of sensorimotor development does the infant's main focus remain on his or her own body?

Farah shows her baby a colorful block several times.The baby looks carefully at the block at first,but then turns her attention to a different toy after seeing the block a few times.The baby is displaying _____.

Which of the following statements about first words is NOT correct?

Linguist Noam Chomsky said that children are born into the world with a _____,a biological endowment that enables the child to detect certain features and rules of language,including phonology,syntax,and semantics.

According to Jean Piaget's theory of infant development,what makes one stage more advanced than another?

When Alice speaks to her six-month-old nephew,her voice immediately takes on a higher pitch,her speech becomes slower,and she begins to use more simplistic words and phrases.This change in Alice's language behavior provides an example of:

Jim and Joanna are curious to know if their baby will grow up to be a child with high IQ.Which of the following measures for assessing infant development is correlated with measures of intelligence in older children and would best suit the purpose?