Exam 6: The First Two Years: Cognitive Development

Babies in the fourth stage of sensorimotor development work to achieve their goals.

The _____ theory of language learning stresses that infants are social beings who learn language in order to communicate with other people.

The sequence in which language development occurs depends upon which language is spoken.

Habituation research is a technique that Piaget developed for testing his theories.

Briefly describe the first three stages of sensorimotor intelligence, including the length of each stage. For each stage, give an example of an infant's behavior.

Stage four of the sensorimotor period is known as "new adaptation and _____."

One word plus expression, tone, loudness, and cadence make up a holophrase.

A child's first word combinations-for example, "More cookie" or "My toy"-are called "holophrases."

When his sippy cup is empty, 2-year-old Ravi approaches his father and says, "More juice." Ravi's combination of words in the correct order shows that he has begun to master ______.

Babies whose caregivers use child-directed speech learn language more slowly than babies whose caregivers use adult patterns in their speech.

Piaget's sixth stage of sensorimotor intelligence is known as the stage of "_____."

Universal grammar is Chomsky's term for his observation that _____.