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

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:

If you are presented with a series of photos and asked to select the photos of only those people who were in your high school graduating class, this task would primarily involve:

Which of the following is the best example of a gross motor skill?

Role playing encourages cognitive development because it allows a child to experiment with a variety of behaviors and experience the consequences and emotions that come with them.

Sam and Marty are having a conversation. Sam says that he just saw a big truck. Marty replies that his father is a doctor. Sam and Marty are engaging in a:

The process by which soft tissue or cartilage is transformed into bone is called:

According to the text, which of the following groups of 3- to 5-year-old children would be most likely to have difficulty solving theory of mind problems?

The text suggests that children benefit from playing with other children who are older and younger than they are. Why?

Dr. Larsen states that he likes to give his students just enough "hints" so that they can figure out how to solve a difficult problem with a minimum of guidance. Dr. Larsen's approach best demonstrates the concept of:

Mary notices that her 3-year-old seems to have difficulty when he tries to stop running. When coming to a quick stop, he often tips forward, nearly falling on his face. From a developmental perspective, this boy's difficulty most likely stems from having:

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

Larsen states that he likes to give his students just enough "hints" so that they can figure out how to solve a difficult problem with a minimum of guidance. Dr. Larsen's approach best demonstrates the concept of:

Which of the following would define the lowest point in a child's zone of proximal development, according to Vygotsky?

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:

When he was younger, Tommy stacked blocks for the sheer joy of doing so. Now, Tommy only stacks blocks when he is trying to build something or when he is playing a game. The term that best describes Tommy's development is:

The term "sociocentric" is best thought of as the opposite of the term:

Which of the following statements about the progress of development is correct?

According to the text, one reason that young children often fail to correctly solve conservation problems is that they do not see them as logical problems; rather they see them as:

According to the text, the most dramatic cognitive difference between infants and 2-year-olds is in their use of:

Mark can describe to his teacher how he walks from his house to the playground, where a bus picks him up, but he cannot describe how he would walk from the playground back to his house, because he has never done this. Mark's thinking is best considered to be an example of: