Deck 7: Language Development in the Preschool Years

Question 1

Children do better at preferential looking paradigms …

A)with three-word sentences
B)with familiar words
C)with corresponding video
D)with complex sentences

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Children reared in a language-poor enviroment may be susceptible to …

A)greater genetic susceptibility to SLI
B)mutation to the FOXP2 gene
C)language disadvantage
D)language disorder

Answer 2

C

Question 3

A researcher who preferred 'nurture' over 'nature' models would most likely suscribe to __________ theories of language development.

A)nativist
B)inside-out
C)syntactical
D)outside-in

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Most children display a sharp increase in sentence complexity after …

A)12 months
B)30 months
C)24 months
D)16 months

Question 5

Children describing a sentence with nonsense words helps to demonstrate …

A)language development
B)outside-in theories
C)syntactic bootstrapping
D)pilking

Question 6

Incidence of specific language impairment is higher in …

A)boys
B)autistic children
C)girls
D)children with low IQ

Question 7

A case is said to be cormorbid when …

A)a child has a developmental disorder
B)two or more developmental disorders are present
C)the prognosis for recovery of the disorder is doubtful
D)the developmental disorder is remediated

Question 8

Chomsky's theory of language development requires …

A)no experience
B)much language-specific experience
C)minimal experience
D)minimal language-specific experience

Question 9

Inside-out theories of language development do NOT argue for …

A)a minimised role for children's experience
B)a language faculty in the brain
C)domain-specific brain architecture
D)domain-general brain architecture

Question 10

That the FOXP2 gene is found in mice helps to show that …

A)some causes of language impairments are domain-general
B)some causes of language impairment are domain-specific
C)mice have a capacity for language
D)there is a single gene for language

Question 11

Children learn to combine words …

A)at roughly the same age
B)at two and a half years old
C)at three years old
D)at ages which vary considerably

Question 12

Chomsky would argue for the triggering of ______________ to explain why children from different countries learn to speak different languages.

A)syntactic rules
B)the language centre of the brain
C)parameters
D)the 'pro-drop'

Question 13

Inside-out theories emphasise:

A)learning procedures
B)innate learning
C)social and cognitive domains
D)children's experience

Question 14

In ______________ children are able to link categories like people or things via 'linking rules'.

A)syntactic bootstrapping
B)semantic bootstrapping
C)inferrence
D)pivot schema

Question 15

Overregularisation errors can show …

A)awareness of morphological rules
B)a need for grammar instruction
C)underdevelopment of language centre
D)syntactic bootstrapping

Question 16

Children do NOT develop grammar more quickly if they are …

A)spoken to in lengthy, complex sentences
B)asked lots of questions
C)given instructions
D)spoken to about activities they are currently involved in

Question 17

Adding 'ed' to make the word 'fall' past tense is an example of …

A)semantic bootstrapping
B)pivot schema
C)inferrence
D)an overregularisation error

Question 18

In comparison with receptive language, difficulties with expressive language are _________ subject to genetic effects.

A)less
B)more
C)equally
D)not

Question 19

Children combining a word such as 'no' with many other words is an example of …

A)pivot schema
B)semantic bootstrapping
C)syntactic bootstrapping
D)inference

Question 20

Specific language impairment can be diagnosed if language ability is …

A)one standard deviation lower than chronological age
B)two standard deviations below non-verbal IQ
C)one standard deviation lower than non-verbal IQ
D)two standard deviations below verbal IQ