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

When Madeline is in school, she knows that she should raise her hand and be called on by the teacher before speaking. Madeline has learned about the rules of:

Martha plays with a basketball and makes baskets to receive praise from her father. This best reflects what type of motivation:

Jack's family moves to Japan, where he attends a school in which most of the instruction is done in both English and Japanese, which he learns to use as he plays with other children. This type of instruction is best thought of as an example of:

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

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?

Generalizing from research presented in the text, which of the following memory strategies would most likely lead a young child to the best recall of a group of common household items?

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