Exam 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood

Identify the researcher who showed that when the child's attention to relevant aspects of the conservation task is improved,the child is more likely to conserve.

_____ 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 adults are working with young children,they often provide a lot of hints,assistance,instructions,and other support to help the children succeed.As the children indicate that they can do more for themselves,the adults begin to withdraw the support.This shows the adults' involvement in the children's:

Many of the deaths of young children around the world could be prevented by a reduction in:

Researchers have found that children who have sleep problems:

Guidelines recommend that young children engage in _____ of physical activity per day.

Four-year-old Michelle talks to herself frequently and especially when she is trying to solve a difficult problem.Lev Vygotsky would say that Michelle is:

By the time they enter first grade,it is estimated that children know about _____ words.

Which of the following educational strategies would Vygotsky say should be incorporated in classrooms?

Fred and Wayne are four-year-olds.When they are together,they often wrestle,run,race,push,and shove each other.Although their level of activity often aggravates their parents,these activities will:

Critics of universal preschool education say that:

The poor are the majority in nearly one of every _____ nations of the world.

Competent early childhood programs should focus:

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

Identify an Italian physician-turned-educator who at the beginning of the twentieth-century crafted a revolutionary approach to young children's education.In this approach,children are given considerable freedom and spontaneity in choosing activities.

After the age of _____,children attend more efficiently to the dimensions of the task that are relevant.

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

Briefly describe what is meant by a child's theory of mind? How are false-beliefs tasks useful in assessing the theory of mind?

It is only by age seven that children begin to recognize all of the following EXCEPT:

Five-year-old Donna speaks in shorter,simpler sentences to her baby brother.She speaks in a very informal way with her friends and uses a more formal language with her father's friends.Donna is demonstrating her grasp of: