Exam 7: Section 2: Conceptual Development

Which statement would be considered evidence that an infant has formed the category "furniture"?

Amina is from Peru and Tanya is from Canada. Both girls are 3 years old. If both girls are given a false-belief problem, what will each girl likely do?

Which scenario is an example of sociodramatic play?

When children have cataracts removed in infancy, what aspect of perceptual processing is most likely to be impaired later on?

The realization that all sets of a particular number of objects, say 5, have something in common is referred to as:

Which research finding would be MOST consistent with a nativist perspective on children's development of the understanding of space?

Which pair would Iris, a 6-month-old infant, be MOST likely to place in the same category?

At what age do children place plants into the category "living things"?

Critics of the conclusion that infants understand arithmetic argue that infants instead rely on:

The research of Krascum and Andrews on children's ability to learn about wugs and gillies demonstrated that giving children the _____ was particularly important.

Which child is MOST like to solve a false-belief problem correctly?

In the study in which 9- to- 11-month-old infants were shown a series of actions and then given opportunities to reproduce the actions, _____ was necessary for the infants to reproduce the actions accurately.

Which group is made up of members of the same perceptual category?

Developmental psychologists have settled on which description of children's understanding of living things?

Isabella, who is 5 years old, observes her little brother counting the nine pennies in front of him. He first lines up all the pennies, and then begins to count them, starting from the middle of the line, proceeding first all the way to the end of the line on the right, and then continuing with the left-most penny and counting to the right, ending on the penny directly to the left of the penny he counted first. He counts, "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9," and then says, "I have 9 pennies." When Isabella is asked if her brother counted correctly, which response is she MOST likely to make?

The most basic sense of time is:

Using a _____ is an example of an object substitution.

The development of a theory of mind is severely impaired for:

Which statement BEST expresses Piaget's beliefs about infants' spatial representations?

Tina, a 3-year-old, is shown a Cheerios box and then shown that it contains marbles. If asked what her friend Mark will think on seeing the box for the first time, Tina will MOST likely say that Mark will think it contains: