Question 1

The approximate ages of Piaget's sensorimotor period of cognitive development is

Accepted Answer

A)  ​birth to 2 years. 
B)  ​2 years to 7 years. 
C)  ​7 years to 11 years. 
D)  ​11 years through adulthood.

Question 2

_______________ speech involves comments that are not intended for others but are designed to help children regulate their own behavior.

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The answer of _______________ speech involves comments that are not...

Question 3

Which of the following is NOT offered by your authors as a method to help increase a preschool child's ability to provide reliable testimony?

Accepted Answer

A)  ​Ask children to describe the event(s) in question in their own words. 
B)  ​Encourage children to tell the truth and to feel free to say, "I don't know." 
C)  ​Give children time to control their emotions and remember things rationally. 
D)  ​Ask questions that consider alternative explanations of the event.

Question 4

When an infant starts licking his lips and salivating when his mother starts to adjust her clothing to nurse, the infant demonstrates _______________ conditioning.

Accepted Answer

The answer of When an infant starts licking his lips...

Question 5

When adults speak slowly and with exaggerated changes in pitch and volume, they are using ____ speech.

Accepted Answer

A)  ​symbolic 
B)  ​off-stressed 
C)  ​phonemic 
D)  ​infant-directed

Question 6

Which of the following is the MOST accurate statement regarding bilingual children?

Accepted Answer

A)  ​Bilingual children have a larger vocabulary in their native language, but a smaller overall vocabulary than monolingual children. 
B)  ​Bilingual children have a larger overall vocabulary than monolingual children. 
C)  ​Bilingual children have a larger vocabulary in their second language, but a smaller overall vocabulary than monolingual children. 
D)  ​Bilingual children confuse the vocabularies, typically through adolescence.

Question 7

Young Ruthie is tickled pink to learn that she will be visiting her beloved grandmother who recently moved to a nearby apartment. The first time she walks into the apartment, Ruthie immediately notices the strong scent of the wintergreen-based gel her grandmother used for muscle and joint pain and comments that it "smells funny in here." Soon, however, Ruthie no longer notices the wintergreen scent. However, after Ruthie's initial reaction to the scent would be a(n) ____, and her later lack of reaction to it demonstrates ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  ​attention; orientation 
B)  ​habituation; attention 
C)  ​orienting response; habituation 
D)  ​habituation; orienting response

Question 8

Which is the BEST example of overregularization?

Accepted Answer

A)  ​Saying "horse" instead of "hose" 
B)  ​Saying "houses" instead of "homes" 
C)  ​Saying "flunked" instead of "failed" 
D)  ​Saying "runned" instead of "ran"

Question 9

Meltzoff and Moore's controversial finding that three-week-olds would stick out their tongues to match an adult performing the same act has been used to support the notion of early life

Accepted Answer

A)  ​imitation. 
B)  ​centration. 
C)  ​orienting response. 
D)  ​habituation.

Question 10

What is the correct order of the four stages of cognitive development, according to Piaget?

Accepted Answer

A)  ​sensorimotor period, formal operational period, preoperational period, concrete operational period 
B)  ​sensorimotor period, preoperational period, concrete operational period, formal operational period 
C)  ​preoperational period, sensorimotor period, formal operational period, concrete operational period 
D)  ​formal operational period, concrete operational period, preoperational period, sensorimotor period

Question 11

Which two parts of the brain are responsible for the initial storage of information?

Accepted Answer

A)  ​the amygdala and the hippocampus 
B)  ​the hypothalamus and the medulla 
C)  ​the pons and the reticular activating system 
D)  ​the cerebral cortex and the cerebellum

Question 12

Which pianist is most likely to use private speech while practicing?

Accepted Answer

A)  ​Wolfgang, a new student who is practicing a very easy piece 
B)  ​Sebastian, who is not making any mistakes 
C)  ​Johann, a skilled pianist who is playing a new, difficult piece 
D)  ​Giuseppe, who is already a concert pianist

Question 13

When a child, usually around six months of age, produces vowel-consonant combinations that approximate real speech, she is ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  ​babbling 
B)  ​telegraphing 
C)  ​holophrasing 
D)  ​cooing

Question 14

Within Piaget's theory of cognitive development, children demonstrate ____ when they adjust their existing cognitive schemes around new information or experiences that are inconsistent with those schemes.

Accepted Answer

A)  ​assimilation 
B)  ​reversing 
C)  ​accommodation 
D)  ​egocentrism

Question 15

A common law of physics, noted by Sir Isaac Newton, states that "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." If you were to apply that principle to Piaget's theory of cognitive development in children, actions being in balance with each other would describe the process of

Accepted Answer

A)  equilibration. 
B)  ​assimilation. 
C)  ​accommodation. 
D)  ​schematization.

Question 16

Five-year-old Jonah likes to play a scrabble-like game on the family computer. He plays against other family members, and usually does pretty well. When he gets a list of letter tiles that are too difficult for him to use, he asks his mother and father for help. The difference between letter tiles that Jonah can use and letter tiles with which he needs help typifies what Vygotsky called the zone of ____ development.

Accepted Answer

A)  ​assisted 
B)  ​distal 
C)  ​proximal 
D)  ​located

Question 17

Research has found that when parents use a(n) ____ style to help their children expand on their descriptions of events, they will have earlier memories of childhood when they reach adolescence.

Accepted Answer

A)  ​measured 
B)  ​formal 
C)  ​idiomatic 
D)  ​conversational

Question 18

A child who counts numbers in a mixed up sequence, such as "4, 2, 1, 5, 8, 6," is demonstrating a failure to understand the _______________ principle.

Accepted Answer

The answer of A child who counts numbers in a...

Question 19

Piaget believed that by about 18 months of age, the average child began to have the ability to use and understand symbols. How did he feel this was demonstrated?

Accepted Answer

A)  ​by the emerging use of language and gestures for communication 
B)  by the successful resolution of the Oedipus conflict 
C)  ​by demonstrating a significant reduction in both egocentrism and equilibration 
D)  ​by moving from crawling to walking independently

Question 20

The two areas of the brain that are responsible for the initial storage of information are the _______________ and the _______________.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The two areas of the brain that...

Exam 4: The Emergence of Thought and Language: Cognitive Development in Infancy and Early Childhood.