Exam 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy

Glynnis is 14 months old.She is trying out new things,playing with her toys,and manipulating objects in new ways-experimenting with her environment.Glynnis is in which substage of Piaget's first cognitive stage?

What is the youngest age at which infants can remember specific objects?

Which of the following terms describes a child's ability to produce language accurately?

What terminology would some theorists use to describe the innate language processor that children are born with?

What are holophrases? Give an example.

Piaget argued that imitating other people's facial gestures was a complex skill because it required what?

Which is the best-known and most widely used infant intelligence test?

According to your text,vocabulary spurts occur around the time that the child has acquired about how many words?

Identify a language milestone typical of a 19-month-old child.

Which of the following items would test a child's cognitive skills?

Permanent changes in behavior that result from experience are examples of

A child's understanding of words is known by which of the following?

Gregory is a six-month-old baby boy.He is learning about his environment through touching things,putting things in his mouth,and scooting around on the floor.According to Piaget,Greg is in the ________ stage of cognitive development.

Which of the following statements is true when comparing language development in different cultures?

Kayla was given several different,brightly colored balls to play with one after the other.After about ball number seven,Kayla seemed to lose interest.When she was given a stuffed animal,she showed renewed interest.An element of schematic learning called ________ is behind Kayla's renewed interest.

What is the basis of interactionist theory?

The innate language processor that some theorists believe children are born with is called the ________.

Compare and contrast the interactionist view and the nativist view on infant language development.

Children learn rules of grammar before they learn the exceptions to them.In other words,the errors they make in language are associated with rules,not random patterns,as behaviorists suggested.This criticism represents the ideas of whom?

By the age of 13 months,research suggests that babies have a receptive language store of about how many words?