Exam 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy

Cross-cultural studies have shown that _____ mothers tend to engage in more symbolic play with their infants than _____ mothers.

Jean Piaget called a child's ability to understand that things continue to exist even when they can't be seen

When giving your child toys and books,

Providing your child with appropriate toys and books,being responsive,and engaging in joint attention with your child are all

When an infant can relearn something she's forgotten,and does so in much less time than she required for her original learning,we know

Jean Piaget suggested that an infant's motor activity contributed to its

Stilson and Harding (1997)found that children are more likely to engage in symbolic play by the time they're about 40-months-old if their mothers engaged in _____ styles of play.

Cross-cultural studies have shown that _____ mothers tend to engage in more exploratory play with their infants than _____ mothers.

Wing Lee sees a toy train go into a tunnel and waits for it to come back out through the same opening.He's amazed when it comes out somewhere else.Piaget would say that Wing Lee cannot be more than _____ months old.

Jason is studying Piaget's theory of cognitive development.He's just learned that accommodation and assimilation are part of a larger process called

Clay is playing with 10-month-old Damian.As Damian watches,Clay covers the rattle with a blanket.Damian immediately looks under the blanket to get his rattle,showing that he has achieved

Dion has shown 1-month-old Eudora the same picture of Lucy every day for a week.When Gillian comes into the room,she brings that picture of Lucy,but also one of Marge.The baby seems much more interested in Marge's picture.This reaction to Marge's picture is called

Noam Chomsky argued that children learn syntax because each child has _____ built into her or his brain.

One way to see if an intelligence test for infants is useful is to compare its results to the results of intelligence tests taken by the same children 10-15 years later.This tests its

When infants engage in _____,they use a limited number of examples to figure out a general rule about the meaning of a word.

When Demeter gives little Persephone some toy farm animals,a toy tractor,and a toy car,he notices that she tends to play more with the animals.This shows that Persephone is engaging in

Mutual exclusivity refers to the idea that

Which of the following scales is not a part of The Bayley Scales of Infant Development?

The book suggests using Bronfenbrenner's ecological perspective to understand different influences on a child's intelligence.This would mean classifying a child's neighborhood and her parents' workplaces in Bronfenbrenner's

Little Hoc can say about 50 words,and uses them correctly when he speaks.If he's an average child,you'd expect Hoc to be about _____ years old.