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

After a child's vocabulary has reached about 50 expressed words, vocabulary will increase by approximately _____ words per month.

Elaine communicates with her new baby using child-directed speech, which is also referred to as _____.

Infant memory is characterized by _____ memory; _____ memory begins to appear between 6 and 12 months.

The usual order of the development of spoken language in an infant is _____.

Amy spontaneously says things such as "mamamamamama" and "dadadadadadada." About how old is Amy likely to be?

Between 13 and 18 months, infants add approximately _____ new words.

The behavior of an infant in sensorimotor stage four might best be described as _____.

At approximately what age will a child begin to utter his or her first two-word sentences?

Which theory compares human cognition to the workings of a computer?

According to Piaget, a stage-five sensorimotor baby is like a _____.

When does it first become obvious that a person has discerned the rules of his or her native language?

A visual cliff is used to assess infants' _____.

Freddy has been sucking his thumb for a few weeks. His parents would prefer him to use a pacifier, so they begin to offer one, but Freddy rejects it and continues to suck his thumb. Freddy is most clearly in stage _____ of Piaget's theory of sensorimotor development.

Janice's mother often lets her 6-month-old baby sit in front of the television, watching episodes of Sesame Street. What is Janice likely learning from the episodes she watches?

The first of Piaget's sensorimotor stages that involves an infant's interaction with something else is _____.

Piaget believed children begin to develop cognitively at _____.

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.

In one research study, scientists scanned the brains of both a monkey reaching for a banana and another monkey watching that action. The same neurons in a particular region of the brain were activated in both monkeys. These neurons are called _____ neurons.

Sensorimotor stage four is the stage of _____.

According to Chomsky's theory of language acquisition, _____.