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

Suppose that Bob is a typical 3-year-old child. By age 6, you should expect that his height will have increased by about how many inches?

At first, Mike has to concentrate very hard when typing, thinking where each letter on the keyboard is. However, after practicing a great deal, he now types without even thinking about how his fingers are moving. The concept that best describes Mike's development is:

According to Piaget, when children encounter something familiar, they ________ it; when they encounter something new, they ___________ it.

Jacobs is describing a process by which neurons become insulated so that they can conduct neural impulses more efficiently. The process he is describing would be called:

Suppose you examine an ultrasound image of a fetus, who is sucking her left thumb. Generalizing from research presented in the text, what is the probability that this fetus will be left-handed at age 15?

When a young child learns to help fold laundry and put clothes away, cultural information is being transmitted. According to Vygotsky's view, this is best considered to be an example of:

The difference between the child's actual developmental level and that child's potential level of development if guided by adults or older peers is called the:

It seems likely that, even if socioeconomic conditions are similar, children who grow up in a bilingual environment still suffer from slower language development.

When a child cannot correctly answer the question, "Are there more boys or more children in this classroom?" this is a good example of the limits of egocentric thinking.

Mr. Williams argues that there is no use trying to teach a 3-year-old to read because children of this age have not yet developed neural structures adequate for this task. Instead, he says that children will learn to read much faster and with less effort when they are 5 years old. His argument is based on the concept of:

Molly is watching TV. She doesn't understand that a child standing behind the TV set cannot see what is on the screen, because she assumes that the other child sees the same thing she does. Molly's thinking is best considered an example of:

A child who believes that objects and people in their thoughts and dreams are real is displaying what?

The formation of sheathing cells to insulate neurons is called :

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

The social and cultural aspects of language use are referred to by the term:

Suppose you examine an ultrasound image of a fetus, who is sucking her left thumb. Generalizing from research presented in the text, what is the probability that this fetus will be left-handed at age 15?

According to Piaget, what is the child's "work":

According to Lev Vygotsky, the process by which more experienced people transmit cultural information to children is called:

In comparison to Piaget's view of cognitive development, Lev Vygotsky's view put more emphasis on:

For people who are right-handed, language functions are generally found in _____ hemisphere(s) of the brain; for people who are left-handed, language functions are generally found in _____ hemisphere(s) of the brain.