Exam 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy

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:

What is infantile amnesia? What are two explanations given for this phenomenon?

By one year of age after only speaking Japanese since she was born,Maria,doesn't recognize changes in sounds in English words that she previously seemed to notice at three months old.Why do you think Maria lost that ability? Is this normal or a problem? Please support your answer with Patricia Kuhl's research.

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?

Many experts believe that humans acquired language about _____ years ago.

In her book Growing Up with Language,Naomi Baron provided which of the following suggestions for facilitating language development in toddlers?

_____ involves the way words are combined to form acceptable phrases and sentences.

Alice who is three weeks old is in the _____ substage of Piaget's sensorimotor development; she will latch on to and suck anything that is touched to her lips.

The Bayley Scales of Infant Development are used to assess Mathias,who does very well on it.A high score on the Bayley mental scale:

Charisma is six months old and can vocalize pleasure and displeasure,search for objects out of reach,and approach a mirror that is placed in front of her.According to the Bayley Scales of Infant Development,Charisma:

Define receptive vocabulary and spoken vocabulary.What is the relationship between the two?

How many morphemes does the word "marker" have?

Three-year-old Jesse used to call all moving vehicles "car." He now accurately categorizes moving vehicles into trucks,cars,motorcycles,and buses.Jesse has _____ to fit new information into his existing scheme.

The rules of _____ describe the way meaningful units can be combined in words.

The _____ focuses on an infant's ability to process information in such ways as encoding the attributes of objects,detecting similarities and differences between objects,forming mental representations,and retrieving these representations.

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