Question 1

How did Piaget believe infants think about an object?

Accepted Answer

A)  Piaget believed that infants must experience an object through both the visual and tactile senses. 
B)  Piaget believed that infants think about objects through mental representation. 
C)  Piaget believed that infants have a set of innate knowledge to begin their cognitive development. 
D)  Piaget believed that infants simply need to hear information to learn.

Question 2

What is the name of the experimental task in which an infant interacts with an adult who first engages in normal social interaction and then suddenly becomes unresponsive?

Accepted Answer

A)  The still-face interaction paradigm 
B)  Violation-of-expectation task 
C)  Visual cliff 
D)  A-not-B error

Question 3

What does Chomsky think is housed in the language acquisition device (LAD)?

Accepted Answer

A)  Universal grammar 
B)  Canonical babbling 
C)  Memories of conversations 
D)  The motor functions necessary for speaking

Question 4

Which of the following would be considered the earliest schema a newborn has?

Accepted Answer

A)  His or her mother's voice. 
B)  Inborn motor responses. 
C)  The ability to see. 
D)  The memory of the birth process.

Question 5

Grace drops her cup of milk on the floor and looks at her mother while saying, "MILK!" What is Grace expressing in terms of her language ability?

Accepted Answer

A)  Grace is labeling her milk. 
B)  Grace is fast mapping the word for milk. 
C)  Grace is babbling, but it just sounds like the word milk. 
D)  Grace is using a holophrase that actually means, "Mom, I spilled my milk on the floor!"

Question 6

Information processing capacities in infancy predict cognitive ability and intelligence through late adolescence.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

One of the most important advances during the coordination of secondary schemas stage is object permanence.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Based on what we know about Piaget's sensorimotor substages, in which substage would an infant be capable of deferred imitation?

Accepted Answer

A)  Substage 3: Secondary Circular Reactions 
B)  Substage 2: Primary Circular Reactions 
C)  Substage 5: Tertiary Circular Reactions 
D)  Substage 6: Mental Representations

Question 9

The most often used standardized measure of infant intelligence is:

Accepted Answer

A)  The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised. 
B)  The Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scales of Development. 
C)  The Bayley Scales of Infant Development III (BSID-III). 
D)  The Stanford-Binet.

Question 10

Children do not show gains in attention until they are around the age of 12 months.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Maddie watches her mother hide her favorite toy behind the couch. After she gets down from her high chair after lunch, she crawls over to the couch and gets her toy. What part of memory is Maddie using?

Accepted Answer

A)  Sensory memory 
B)  Working memory 
C)  Long-term memory 
D)  Central memory

Question 12

The repetition of an action and its response is called a:

Accepted Answer

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Question 13

How do pediatricians accurately determine infants' development relative to other infants their age?

Accepted Answer

A)  Through standardized tests. 
B)  Through parental report. 
C)  By observing the infants. 
D)  Through reports from child care providers, parents, and observations.

Question 14

Jennifer is an infant who has begun to put all the spoons in a pile and all the forks in a pile when her mother is doing dishes. She also will put the toy cars together and the stuffed animals together in boxes in her playroom. Based on what we know about categorization in infants, how old is Jennifer?

Accepted Answer

A)  Jennifer is most likely 7 to 12 months old. 
B)  Jennifer is most likely just turning 15 months old. 
C)  Jennifer is most likely 3 to 6 months old. 
D)  Jennifer is 2 years old.

Question 15

Which of the following is not a factor that improves an infant's ability to recall events?

Accepted Answer

A)  Active engagement 
B)  Events that take place in familiar surroundings 
C)  Events that involve other infants or peers 
D)  Events that are emotionally salient

Question 16

The process of quickly acquiring and retaining a word after hearing it applied a few times is called:

Accepted Answer

A)  word integration. 
B)  fast mapping. 
C)  holophrasing. 
D)  categorization.

Question 17

What is critical for selecting information to process in working memory?

Accepted Answer

A)  The ability to emotionally connect to the information. 
B)  The ability to focus and switch attention. 
C)  Repeating information. 
D)  Good eye-hand coordination.

Question 18

How is categorization related to information processing?

Accepted Answer

A)  Children are attuned to sensing differences in objects (sensory memory). 
B)  Recognizing categories makes more room in working memory. 
C)  Recognizing categories is not related to information processing in any specific way. 
D)  Recognizing categories is a way of organizing information that allows for more efficient storage and retrieval of information in memory.

Question 19

What is another name for the vocabulary spurt?

Accepted Answer

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Question 20

Infants naturally categorize or organize information, just as older children and adults do.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood

How did Piaget believe infants think about an object?

What is the name of the experimental task in which an infant interacts with an adult who first engages in normal social interaction and then suddenly becomes unresponsive?

What does Chomsky think is housed in the language acquisition device (LAD) ?

Which of the following would be considered the earliest schema a newborn has?

Grace drops her cup of milk on the floor and looks at her mother while saying, "MILK!" What is Grace expressing in terms of her language ability?

Information processing capacities in infancy predict cognitive ability and intelligence through late adolescence.

One of the most important advances during the coordination of secondary schemas stage is object permanence.

Based on what we know about Piaget's sensorimotor substages, in which substage would an infant be capable of deferred imitation?

The most often used standardized measure of infant intelligence is:

Children do not show gains in attention until they are around the age of 12 months.

Maddie watches her mother hide her favorite toy behind the couch. After she gets down from her high chair after lunch, she crawls over to the couch and gets her toy. What part of memory is Maddie using?

The repetition of an action and its response is called a:

How do pediatricians accurately determine infants' development relative to other infants their age?

Which of the following is not a factor that improves an infant's ability to recall events?

The process of quickly acquiring and retaining a word after hearing it applied a few times is called:

What is critical for selecting information to process in working memory?

How is categorization related to information processing?

What is another name for the vocabulary spurt?

Infants naturally categorize or organize information, just as older children and adults do.