Exam 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy

The first stage of development identified by Jean Piaget is the _____ period.

The Bayley Scales of Infant Development are

The first words most children learn are

Which of the following is not a good indicator of intelligence in infants?

When little Brendan first saw a picture of Bullwinkle Moose,he looked at it for a long time.After he'd seen the picture several times,he spent less and less time looking at it each time.This tapering off of his interest is due to

When Chin sees a toy train go into a tunnel,he looks at the other end of the tunnel waiting for it to come out.Piaget would expect Chin to be _____ months old.

Which of the following illustrates deferred imitation?

Infantile amnesia was first suggested by

When Padraig points to a bowl of soup and says "soup," his infant son Reid doesn't know if that word refers to the bowl,the contents of the bowl,the plate under the bowl,or the spoon in the bowl.Reid is dealing with what linguists call the

Cross-cultural studies have shown that Japanese mothers tend to structure more _____ play for their infants.

Most children begin to point at objects by the time they are _____ months old.

The correct order of Piaget's stages of development is

Most toddlers generate grammatically correct sentences by the time they are _____ months old.

Developmental researchers believe that a baby has created a mental representation of something when he or she has

Parental belief systems that are based in cultural ideas about development are called

Little Norbert knows that when his father says,"Let's go,Sport!" it means that they're going for a ride in the car.In other words,he has mastered the _____ of that expression.

Exploratory play generally involves

The book suggests using Urie Bronfenbrenner's ecological perspective to understand different influences on a child's intelligence.This would mean classifying parents,peers,and grandparents in Bronfenbrenner's

Little Aleka's speech consists primarily of nouns used to name things in the environment.Language researchers call this _____ language.

_____ signals to children that a conversation is happening.