Exam 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy

Haruko finds her mother's keys and begins to play with them. She works patiently in an attempt to fit the keys into an opening in the VCR. She tries the keys one at a time; she tries to put the key ring into the slot; she tries to separate the keys into two groups. Finally, she succeeds in jamming the keys into the equipment. Haruko's age is most likely

University researcher Fei Xu identified that infants use three broad categories to differentiate and recognize distinct objects. Which of the following is NOT one of the categories identified by Fei Xu?

According to Piaget's substages of sensorimotor development, which of the following behaviours would most accurately reflect the ability of a child who is under the age of 1 month?

If Abraham tells his son, "No! Hot!" the child will move his hands away from the hot stove. However, the child cannot say, "Hot stove" himself. This demonstrates what principle of children's language development?

Werker's research demonstrates that one characteristic of infants that helps them to learn language is

When a child points to her father's shoe and says "Daddy" she is using a holophrase.

In language development theory, the term "telegraphic speech" refers to

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, children under the age of 2 should watch no television.

Elizabeth Spelke's research into infants' understanding of the nature of objects and how they behave indicates that

Research shows that there is no difference in the early language development of children raised in poverty compared to children raised by better-off parents.

What is the style of word learning characterized by an emphasis on things and people and their naming and description?

Developmentalists know that, with respect to language development, children whose parents talk to them often, read to them regularly, and use a wider range of words in speech differ from children whose parent do not.

An infant's understanding about the nature of objects and how they behave has been referred to as

Current research methods use _________ to study object permanence in infants.

The understanding that an object continues to exist even when we do not see it or touch it is called

When a baby's behaviour displays a purposeful, experimental quality or purposeful trial-and-error repetitions, such as dropping a toy repeatedly to see where it lands, the child is demonstrating _________ cognitive skills.

A simplified higher-pitched speech that adults use with infants and young children can best be described as

Schematic learning theories imply that children at different ages actively use categories to process information. They describe both lower-level and higher-level categorical knowledge. At what age is a child able to utilize and understand both?

Piaget's most fundamental theoretical proposal was that a child constructed an understanding of the world based on ______________________.

Mavis Gunther hypothesized that classical conditioning was at work when she studied the effects on babies of inexperienced mothers' breast-feeding techniques.