Exam 6: The First Two Years: Cognitive Development

A baby in Piaget's third stage of sensorimotor intelligence will attempt to make interesting events last.

Reminder sessions can prolong a young infant's memory of earlier events.

In the final stage of sensorimotor intelligence, toddlers begin to anticipate and solve simple problems by using _____ combinations.

Darius is learning the names of two or three new objects or events every day. This rapid increase in vocabulary is referred to as the _____ explosion.

An opportunity for perception and social interaction that is offered by a person, place, or object in the environment is called a(n) "_____."

The distinct language form known as "baby talk" is a _____.

An example of stage-three sensorimotor behavior is _____.

Research has found that child-directed speech is _____.

Britta has begun repeating syllables such as "da-da-da-da" and "me-me-me-me-me." Britta is in the _____ stage of language development.

Jeremy spoke Ukrainian in early childhood, but stopped speaking it when he was about 4 years old. He no longer explicitly recalls any Ukrainian words and says he can't speak the language. Which of the following situations might reveal his implicit knowledge of Ukrainian?

When 1-week-old Justine feels too warm, she reflexively cries. According to Piaget, Justine is in stage _____ of the sensorimotor period.

Cooper sees his mother come through the door after work. He squeals, "Mama!" According to information-processing theorists, Cooper's reaction to his mother is an example of _____.

Because of maturation of the language areas of the ______, even 4-month-old infants attend to voices, depending on expectations of the rhythm, segmentation, and cadence of spoken words long before comprehension.

On average, children begin saying recognizable words at around _____ months of age.

_____ believed that children learn language by receiving adequate parental attention.

Which of the following is a development that requires understanding another person's perspective?

Researcher Carolyn Rovee-Collier developed an experiment showing that 3-month-old infants could remember after two weeks if they had a brief ______ session before being retested.

Greg is 10 months old, and he refuses to crawl across the visual cliff even though his mother is encouraging him to do so. When he was 6 months old, he squirmed across it without hesitation. What has changed for Greg? ____

Babies understand about ____ times more words than they can say.

Adriana and her mother have been playing patty-cake, but her mother is now trying to engage Adriana in a picture book. Adriana wants to play patty-cake again, so she grabs her mother's hands and puts them together as if in a clap. Adriana is clearly in stage ____ of sensorimotor development.