Exam 9: Seciton 3: Early Childhood: Cognitive Development

Britney understands that her father is crying because his best friend died. This shows that Britney has developed _____.

An evaluation of Head Start found that benefits were MOST apparent for children _____.

When Renee was 11 months old, she was injured in a car crash. She was in a coma for almost a year and then spent many months of recovery from a brain injury. By her third birthday, although she is making good process, she has not yet spoken, and her parents are fearful that she will never speak. The doctors, however, feel confident that Renee will learn to speak. This is because language learning in the first four years is NOT a _____.

The characteristic of preoperational thought in which a young child thinks that nothing changes is called _____.

Micah attends a preschool where there is a high teacher/child ratio and ample opportunity for creative expression. He is engaged in a long-term art project that he chose in which he is making dinosaurs out of clay. Which child-centered approach does Micah's preschool most closely resemble?

The underlying factor allowing the development of theory of mind is _____.

Which of the following is the least important factor in fostering learning in young children?

According to Vygotsky, within the context of cognition, language is a tool _____.

A child's inability to understand that undoing a sequence of events will bring about the original situation is called _____.

Overregularization in a child's speech patterns indicates that _____.

The goal of most teacher-directed preschools is _____.

"You are your mom's daughter, right?" Grandpa asked Beatriz. "Yes!" Beatriz eagerly answered. "Well, your mom is my daughter," Grandpa replied. "No! She's my Mommy!" Beatriz exclaimed. Why did Beatriz make this error?

Piaget called the stage of human cognitive development between the ages of 2 and 6 "preoperational intelligence" because children do not yet _____.

A magician's goal is to get the audience to focus on one aspect of his demonstration while he manipulates another. This is easy to do with preoperational children, as they are fooled by their tendency to _____.

Ivan was playing under the kitchen table when he stood up suddenly and bumped his head. He pointed at the table and sternly said, "Naughty table!" This is an example of _____.

A key factor that strengthens a preschooler's cognition is _____.

A child's ability to add new vocabulary words very quickly is called _____.

According to Vygotsky, a teacher who carefully plans each child's participation in the learning process within the zone of proximal development uses _____.

A child is shown two identical tall containers, both half-filled with water. The contents of one container are then poured into a short, wide container. If the child states that both containers still have the same amount, then the child understands the concept of _____.

In terms of early childhood learning, research has found that if the home educational quality is poor, then _____.