Exam 6: Seciton 4: the First Two Years: Cognitive Development

By 8 months of age, infants have an understanding of object permanence.

The visual cliff is used to determine whether infants recognize that height affords falling.

The first two-word sentence appears between 18 and 24 months of age.

Habituation research has revealed that babies are more advanced than Piaget believed.

Babies in the stage of tertiary circular reactions explore the world, actively experimenting on their environment.

Infants prefer to look at stationary objects over moving objects.

A baby in Piaget's stage three of the sensorimotor period will attempt to make interesting events last.

Mirror neurons may underlie an infant's ability to learn from watching and listening.

Infants tend to have more implicit memories than explicit memories.

Chomsky argued that babies are born to learn language.

Babies are unable to use their imaginations after completing each of Piaget's six stages of sensorimotor development.

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

A child's grammar use becomes obvious when he or she begins to produce holophrases.

Reading to infants has no effect on their language learning since they do not understand most words used in children's books.

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

According to Skinner, toddlers with smaller vocabularies have parents who do not talk to them very much.

There are five stages of sensorimotor intelligence.

Baby talk refers to the sounds made by babies and imitated by parents in the first few weeks after birth.

According to Skinner, a grandfather who smiles whenever the baby says "pa-pa" is providing reinforcement for talking.

The stage of tertiary circular reactions is when infants begin experimenting with thought and deed.