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

Research presented in the text suggests that playing with which of the following types of toys appears to encourage the language development the most?

Dr. Bemus is describing how bones develop and harden during the period of early childhood. The process he is describing is called:

Parker says, "I goed to the playground" instead of "I went to the playground." This speech error is best considered an example of:

Which of the following is not a good example of dramatic play?

Dr. 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 research presented in the text, if a 4-year-old was observed speaking to a 2-year-old, what kind of speech would the 4-year-old be most likely to use?

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

Fine motor skills include such tasks as writing and handling eating utensils.

Leon is in his preschool years. If he is typical how much weight would you expect him to gain each year he is in preschool?

Critics of Piaget's theory note that children depend more on social perspectives than Piaget thought and that children are less competent and more immature than Piaget believed.

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

The development of symbolic representation marks the emergence of the preoperational period.

Which of the following statements is correct?

Preoperational children are concerned with the here and now and with physical things they can represent easily. This means that their thinking is:

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

Suppose that young children are asked what is most likely to be inside a small dog cage. They say "a dog." When they look inside, they see a chicken. To test the children's theory of mind, what would they likely be asked next?

Children generally develop a preference for dramatic play before they are able to engage in parallel play to any great degree.

Laura and Ted like to play "house," a game they invented in which Laura pretends to be the "mother" and Ted the "father." In this game, Laura cooks the food on a pretend stove and Ted takes out the pretend garbage. The ability to play this game relies most directly on which cognitive ability?

The text describes an experiment where 3- and 5-year-old children were shown two objects that were identical except one was red and the other was blue. The children were then given one of the objects that was inside a tube so the child could feel, but not see, it. This experiment is one that was devised to test the concept of:

A child who climbs to the top of a staircase for the challenge and fun of the activity has what type of motivation?