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

Describe a young child's language development from his or her use of crying to gain attention at one month to his or her use of telegraphic speech.

Unlike Piaget,psychologists currently believe that children can understand that other people's mental states differ from their own at young what age?

According to Piaget,the concepts of reversibility and conservation develop during the _______ stage.

Sara is angry at her older brother and calls him "a panty­girdle." At other times when she was angry,she called him "a toilet" and "a rat." Like other children her age,Sara sees the name of an object as being as much a part of the object as its size,shape,and color.Thus,this preoccupation with name calling is very common during which cognitive stage of development?

The normal order of language development in infancy is

Children who grow up in villages where pottery is made can correctly answer questions about the conservation of clay at an earlier age than Piaget would have predicted.This example of the development of earlier conservation skills provides support that cognitive development is strongly influenced by

Recent research on infant cognition suggests that infants appear to form internal representations of the world and to know that objects are solid and do not disappear when out of view

The growth in connections between brain cells that occurs in waves supports which theory of cognitive development?

Like Piaget,Vygotsky believed that children

Which of the following concepts explains why preoperational children can seem exasperatingly selfish or uncooperative at times?

A researcher asks Carlos,"What do you think would happen if it suddenly became possible for people to fly,like birds,without the aid of airplanes?" Carlos comes up with several interesting possibilities about "human flight." Carlos is most likely in the _______ stage.

Which represents the correct order of Piaget's stages of intellectual development?

Children normally begin to say their first word and make connections between words and objects at about __________ months.

When watching an electric train,Amy will look ahead to the end of the tunnel,rather than staring at the spot where the train disappeared.Amy must be at least _______ years old.

Which of the following would be considered a signal in early language development?

Peter is sitting on the floor playing when he waves to his daddy and says "Go bye­bye." He then calls to his cat,"Here Kitty," and later asks his mother for a cookie by saying,"Want cookie." Peter is exhibiting

Explain how parents and teachers can utilize Vygotisky's ideas to help children become more skillful learners.

Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons that preoperational children are at great risk when crossing busy streets?

According to Chomsky,children around the world use a limited number of patterns in their first sentences,which strongly suggests that language patterns must be

You place five pennies in a row and then take five more pennies and place them in a row directly below the other,so that the pennies in the two rows are paired.Your five-year-old son tells you that there are the same number of pennies in each row.You then spread out the pennies on the bottom row so that it looks longer.Your son now thinks that the bottom row has more pennies,showing that he lacks