Exam 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy

Andy is nine months old,but seems to be struggling with following another's gaze and directing adults' attention.These could be early indicators of which diagnosis?

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

Juno is riding a bike.Riding a bike requires Juno to use her memories of skills and routine procedures that are performed automatically; this type of memory is referred to as _____ memory.

The theory that the consequences of a behavior produce changes in the likelihood of the behavior's occurrence is called:

The word "toy" is an example of a:

Child-directed speech is the:

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.

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.

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

Attention in the first year of life is dominated by a(n)_____ process that involves directing attention to potentially important locations in the environment,that is,"where," and recognizing objects and their features,that is,"what."

Identify the theorist who developed a measure to test infant cognitive development designed to distinguish normal babies from abnormal ones.The current version of this theorist's test combines the infant's performance in four domains into an overall score called the developmental quotient.

June knows the names of all the states that comprise the United States.The names of the states are a part of June's _____ memory.

From about 6 to 12 months of age,the maturation of the _____ and the surrounding cerebral cortex,especially the frontal lobes,makes explicit memory possible.

Mandy sees a little girl in the grocery store throwing a tantrum for a toy.Mandy screams and cries for some candy the following week at the mall.Mandy is displaying:

According to Jean Piaget,identify the actions or mental representations that organize knowledge.

Identify the theorist who developed a scale to assess infant behavior and predict later development.The current version,which is Bayley-III,has five scales: cognitive,language,motor,socioemotional,and adaptive.

Which of the following substages of sensorimotor development is characterized by coordination of sensation and action through reflexive behaviors?

List in order Jean Piaget's six substages of the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development.

For cognitive change to occur,identify the two processes that must work in concert as the child experiences considerable movement between the states of cognitive equilibrium and disequilibrium.

Renee remembers very little about the first three years of her life.Psychologists find this normal and call it: