Exam 6: Seciton 3: the First Two Years: Cognitive Development

The statement "Multiple attentional, social, and linguistic cues contribute to early language learning" supports the _____ theory of language learning.

During the sensorimotor stage, the child's main task is to _____.

Object permanence is demonstrated by an infant who _____.

Baby Hugh enjoys playing with his dad's keys, but when his dad takes them away, Hugh does not search for them. Piaget would say that is because Hugh does not understand _____.

Which statement supports the sociocultural perspective of language learning?

Which of the following is one implication of mirror neurons for infant cognition?

Brodie just started saying single words such as "mama" and "doggie." About how old is Brodie likely to be?

Bae is a Korean toddler; his cousin Troy is a Korean-American toddler. Bae is learning to speak Korean, while Troy is learning to speak English. What will be the most noticeable difference in Bae's and Troy's use of language?

According to the social-pragmatic theory, infants communicate because _____.

Andrew uses incorrect word forms such as "ain't" and incorrect grammar such as "I don't got none." What would Skinner say was the source of Andrew's poor language development?

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

Research has found that child-directed speech is _____.

By what age will infants imitate a behavior that they watched a day before?

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?

In which of Piaget's sensorimotor stages do infants respond to people and objects and seek to make interesting events last?

As infants acquire language, they say more _____ than any other parts of speech.

Piaget called an infant's first period of cognitive development _____.

The use of prefixes, suffixes, intonation, verb forms, pronouns, and other parts of speech is known as _____.

The language acquisition device (LAD) was proposed by Chomsky to explain _____.

Piaget would place an interesting toy under a cloth, in full view of the baby, to test _____.