Exam 6: Cognition in Infants and Toddlers

Six-month-old Seiko is growing up in a home where Japanese is the only language spoken. Is she likely to be able to discriminate speech sounds that are used in English but are not used in Japanese?

According to the information-processing approach, the mental hardware consists of

Understanding, searching, comparing, and responding are

A child's ability to make connections between new words and referents so rapidly that they cannot be considering all possible meanings for the new word is referred to as

Fast mapping denotes the phenomenon that

Children with a referential style of learning language use language mainly as a(n) ________ tool whereas children with an expressive style of learning language use language primarily as a(n) ________ tool.

The process of using assimilation and accommodation to reach a new state of equilibrium is called

When Rovee-Collier and her colleagues attached a ribbon from a mobile to 2- to 3-month-old infants' legs so that the infants learned to kick to make the mobile move, they found that when they returned to the babies' homes several days later the babies

When 7- to 8-month-olds hear a word repeatedly in different sentences, later they

Active efforts to adapt old schemes to novel objects, rather than to simply repeat old actions characterize

You show 5-month-old Zachary many pictures of two objects. At first he looks at each picture for several seconds, but after several are shown he just glances at each briefly then looks away. Then you show him a picture of three objects. What would you expect him to do?

Yuri was visiting his aunt and uncle when his cousin suddenly started playing the piano. Yuri was startled, stared at his cousin playing the piano, and had an increase in heart rate. Yuri is showing

According to Cuevas & Bell (2014), children who are more efficient at processing information tend to have

Eighteen-month-old Lenny's vocabulary contains some words that are names for objects but also has many social phrases such as "I want it" and "Go away." Lenny has a(n) ________ style of learning language.

Overextensions

According to Piaget,

Piaget differed from other psychological theorists of his day because he thought

Youngsters with a referential style of language-learning

Tertiary circular reactions are most closely associated with

Slaughter and her team (2004) described three types of knowledge that together form an infant's representation for the body. In what order do the following describe the findings most accurately?