Exam 6: Early Childhood: Physical, Cognitive, and Language Development

Parallel play is most likely to be displayed by which of the following children?

Running, jumping, and skipping are best considered to be examples of:

When a child talks in simple 2- or 3-word sentences, such as "Me do it!" this is referred to as overregularization.

Multiple choice test questions are a good example of a task that requires recall.

Children's conversations that include taking turns talking, but during which children to do not necessarily talk about the same topic, are called:

Jeff loves to practice the piano. His parents never need to tell him to practice or offer rewards for him to play. Jeff's behavior is best considered an example of:

Suppose that you can place a child with developmental disabilities into one of four programs. Which of these would you choose because it would likely produce the best outcome for the child?

Robbie has a dream about a robot that hides under his bed and might eat him alive while he sleeps. Even though his father explains over and over that robots are not real, Robbie is still afraid and insists the robot might be real. Robbie's thinking is best considered an example of:

Which of the following systems is the first to become myelinated during development?

If Joshua is left-handed, your best guess would be that his language abilities are localized in which part of his brain?

A child who is running and kicking a soccer ball is making use of what set of skills?

Lansing emphasizes that just as the environment influences the child's development, the child also acts on the environment, changing it. The concept that best describes this two-way interchange is:

Generalizing from information in the text about the age at which children's activity levels peak, which of the following children would you expect to be most active?

Young children have special difficulty remembering information that is organized temporally (in a time-based sequence).

Handedness is especially interesting to developmentalists because it is intimately linked to:

When a child finds it difficult to understand another person's feelings or perceptions, this is a good example of Piaget's concept called concrete operations.

According to the text, about what percent of the population is right-handed?

One way of describing Piaget's and Vygotsky's views of childhood would be to note that Piaget saw children as ___________ whereas Vygotsky saw them as ____________.

According to the information-processing view of memory, human memory operates much like:

The best example of a recall task would be: