Exam 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in the Preschool Years

What is the term for the support for learning and problem solving that encourages independence and growth?

Research suggests that the age at which toilet training takes place has risen over the years.Today,the average age of toilet training is around _________.

The left hemisphere of the brain becomes more specialized during the preschool years in which of the following areas?

Which of the following is considered a permanent result of lead poisoning in children?

Piaget believed that children from _______ years of age fall into the _________ stage.

Muscle strength development for preschool boys and girls is the same.

Parents in China,Japan,and the United States all see the benefits of preschools in a different way.What do U.S.parents view as the most likely benefit of preschool?

Because of stringent legal restrictions on the amount of lead in paint and gasoline,lead poisoning is no longer a significant danger to children.

By the time a child is 6 years old,he/she weighs,on average,about _______ pounds and stands approximately ______ inches tall.

The Wilson family went to their family reunion picnic,and their two children were allowed to participate in different games.Which of the following is a game that the 4-year-old would likely have enough fine motor skills to play?

Children's lack of concern over the impact of their nonverbal behavior on others is evidence of their inherent selfishness.

In 4-year-old Amanda's preschool class,the group discussion involved airplanes.After that,Amanda considered herself an expert on airplanes and believed she knew everything there was to know about airplanes,even though she was unable to provide a reasonable explanation about why she thought she knew so much about airplanes.In this example,Amanda is demonstrating

As an infant,Baby Sarah had typical childhood illnesses and no significant earaches.However,Sarah is now 4 years old and she is experiencing frequent earaches.What is the most likely reason for this?

The average preschool child has __________ colds and other respiratory illnesses in each of the years from ages 3 to 5.

If a 4 ½-year-old child is asked to draw a person who is first standing upright and then has fallen down,the child is likely to draw the figure in the vertical position,and then the figure lying in the horizontal position with no other pictures in-between to demonstrate the person falling.This child would be demonstrating a lack of

Which of the following is the best description of Piaget's "symbolic function"?

Developmental psychologists have found that children can benefit from involvement in some form of ___________ before they enroll in formal schooling,which takes place at ages 5 or 6 in the U.S.

What is the term for the system of rules that determines how our thoughts can be expressed?

From the later months of age 2 and into the mid-3s,the number of ways children combine words and phrases to form sentences _______ each month.

Approximately at what age does a child show signs of preference for the use of one hand over another?