Exam 15: Human Development: Language and Cognitive Development in Childhood

A child is told a story using two dolls named Sally and Anne.Sally has a basket,while Anne has a box.The experimenter then explains that Sally puts a coin in her basket and goes out to play.In the meantime,Anne takes the coin from Sally's basket and puts it into her box.Sally comes back inside and looks for the coin.The experimenter asks the child "Where will Sally look for her coin?" If the child says that Sally will look for her coin in her basket,the child is demonstrating that he or she has developed

According to Piaget,newborn babies cannot create internal representations such as mental images,and as a result,they lack

Parentese helps parents to do all of the following EXCEPT

According to Piaget's theory,parents should utilize a teaching strategy known as one­step­ahead,since a child's intellect develops mainly through

Jamal wants to know how many baseball cards he has.His mother helps him stack and count the cards,moving each card to a new stack as it is counted.She then shows him how to write the number on a slip of paper so he can remember it.Jamal's mother is doing all of the following EXCEPT

According to Piaget's theory,since a child's intellect develops mainly through accommodation,parents should follow a teaching strategy known as the _______ strategy.

Regarding the sociocultural view of cognitive development,which of the following statements is FALSE?

A teacher shows Megan two short glasses filled to the same level.While Megan is watching,the teacher pours the water from one of the short glasses into a tall thin glass.When Megan is asked which glass has the most water,the short one or the tall one,Megan replies that "There is the same amount of water in each.The tall glass is just thinner." Megan is

You offer to trade your nickel for a dime held by a child.The child accepts the trade because the nickel is bigger. The child is

Emma is used to riding her own bicycle and decides to ride her brother's bike,which is slightly larger and has hand brakes rather than a foot brake.According to Piaget,Emma must use accommodation in order to make the changes necessary to ride her brother's bike.

Infants can imitate actions one day after seeing them as early as age

Jake is playing hide-and-seek with his mother.Jake runs over to the couch and hides his head under a pillow.Because Jake cannot see anything,he doesn't think his mother can see him.Jake is exhibiting a behavioral characteristic of which of Piaget's cognitive stages of development?

Piaget believed that intellect grew through the processes of

Connie is 20 months old and is able to point and name several objects,such as "ball," "doggie," and "cookie" and says "go" and "play." Connie is most likely in which stage of language development?

Object permanence is to the sensorimotor stage as conservation and reversibility are to the _______ stage.

Although children begin to think symbolically and use language before the age of six or seven,their thinking is still very concrete and

Piaget is best known for studying

According to Chomsky,humans have a biological predisposition to develop language.

According to Piaget's theory,since a child's intellect develops mainly through accommodation,parents should follow a teaching strategy known as

Which of the following believe that children continuallly gain specific knowledge and do NOT undergo stage-like leaps in general mental ability?