Exam 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy

Expressive-style children are more social, and referential-style children are more cognitive.

Many theories have been presented to explain the nature of language development in childhood. Which of the following perspectives is NOT one of them?

According to Renee Baillargeon's research pertaining to an infant's knowledge about objects, infants have developed all of the following basic hypotheses about objects EXCEPT

Noam Chomsky would be considered to have a constructivist view of language development.

Between 16 months and 2 years of age, young children experience vocabulary increase spurts called holophrases.

According to Elizabeth Bates, when understanding language development, children who are oriented toward people and toward social interactions are

A basic premise of Renee Baillargeon's research pertaining to infants' knowledge about objects is

The understanding that objects continue to exist when they can't be seen is known as "deferred imitation."

According to Piaget, an infant's adaptive processes of assimilating new information and accommodating existing schemes constitute the ________ period.

According to Piaget's substages of sensorimotor development, which of the following behaviours would most accurately reflect the ability of a child who is 8 to 12 months old?

The process by which an infant differentiates and recognizes distinct objects based on mental images of objects in the environment is called