Question 1

There is new evidence that development in understanding object permanence is associated with maturation of:

Accepted Answer

A)   language.
B)   visual acuity.
C)   reaching ability.
D)   frontal lobes. D

Question 2

Infant intelligent tests successfully predict childhood intelligence scores.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 3

Which feature of language development is not universal?

Accepted Answer

A)   child-directed speech
B)   noun bias
C)   telegraphic speech
D)   increased mylenation B

Question 4

An infant who first realizes that she has the ability to "make interesting sights last" is in which of Piaget's stages?

Accepted Answer

A)   reflexes
B)   primary circular reactions
C)   secondary circular reactions
D)   coordination of secondary circular reactions

Question 5

Piaget suggested that children take information from the world around them and organize them into cognitive structures that he called:

Accepted Answer

A)   circular reactions.
B)   representations.
C)   schemas.
D)   accommodations.

Question 6

When children encounter something in their environment that is similar to information in their current schemas, they use

Accepted Answer

A)   assimilation.
B)   accommodation.
C)   circular reaction.
D)   equilibration.

Question 7

Chomsky proposed that humans have an innate mental structure that allows language learning to occur. He called this structure:

Accepted Answer

A)   Language Acquisition Device.
B)   neural networks.
C)   universal grammar.
D)   core knowledge.

Question 8

Noun bias is a universal phenomenon.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Research indicates that the social context is important to children's language acquisition. Describe three findings that support this idea.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Research indicates that the social context is...

Question 10

When children can begin to think about solutions to problems mentally without trial and error, they are in the stage that Piaget called:

Accepted Answer

A)   secondary circular reactions.
B)   coordination of secondary circular reactions.
C)   tertiary circular reactions.
D)   mental combinations.

Question 11

Compared to infants who live in monolingual households, those in bilingual households acquire language:

Accepted Answer

A)   more quickly.
B)   more slowly.
C)   in the same time frame.
D)   it depends on which two languages being learned.

Question 12

By 4 months, infants are able to categorize by all except:

Accepted Answer

A)   size.
B)   shape.
C)   gender.
D)   function.

Question 13

Jamie often says, "Mama doing?" when he can't see what his mother is doing. This is an example of:

Accepted Answer

A)   word spurt.
B)   babbling.
C)   fast-mapping.
D)   telegraphic speech.

Question 14

When older infants enjoy a game of peek-a-boo, they are practicing which new cognitive skill?

Accepted Answer

A)   primary circular reactions
B)   object permanence
C)   deferred imitation
D)   attentional processing

Question 15

In the past, when Sam's daughter wanted to play with his cell phone, he would hide it from her view. Today, when Sam hid the phone, his daughter kept crying for it, reaching for it, and looking for it. She has developed:

Accepted Answer

A)   primary circular reactions.
B)   object permanence.
C)   deferred imitation.
D)   attentional processing.

Question 16

Research has indicated that babies develop knowledge of patterns of language by understanding the likelihood that one stimuli will follow another one. This is known as:

Accepted Answer

A)   fast-mapping.
B)   babbling.
C)   expressive pattern.
D)   statistical learning.

Question 17

Learning two languages is confusing to small children.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Which type of theorists compares the working of the human mind to information moving through a computer?

Accepted Answer

A)   information processing theorists
B)   social learning theorists
C)   core knowledge theorists
D)   sociocultural theorists

Question 19

In Bauer's recall memory experiments, 20-month-old infants remembered a two-step sequence after a delay of:

Accepted Answer

A)   1 day.
B)   1 week.
C)   1 month.
D)   12 months.

Question 20

In Rovee-Collier's memory experiment, infants showed memory skills if they:

Accepted Answer

A)   kicked a lot when the ribbon was attached to the mobile.
B)   after a delay, kicked above the baseline rate.
C)   after a delay, kicked below the baseline rate.
D)   habituated to the familiar mobile.

Exam 5: Cognitive and Language Development

There is new evidence that development in understanding object permanence is associated with maturation of:

Infant intelligent tests successfully predict childhood intelligence scores.

Which feature of language development is not universal?

An infant who first realizes that she has the ability to "make interesting sights last" is in which of Piaget's stages?

Piaget suggested that children take information from the world around them and organize them into cognitive structures that he called:

When children encounter something in their environment that is similar to information in their current schemas, they use

Chomsky proposed that humans have an innate mental structure that allows language learning to occur. He called this structure:

Noun bias is a universal phenomenon.

Research indicates that the social context is important to children's language acquisition. Describe three findings that support this idea.

When children can begin to think about solutions to problems mentally without trial and error, they are in the stage that Piaget called:

Compared to infants who live in monolingual households, those in bilingual households acquire language:

By 4 months, infants are able to categorize by all except:

Jamie often says, "Mama doing?" when he can't see what his mother is doing. This is an example of:

When older infants enjoy a game of peek-a-boo, they are practicing which new cognitive skill?

In the past, when Sam's daughter wanted to play with his cell phone, he would hide it from her view. Today, when Sam hid the phone, his daughter kept crying for it, reaching for it, and looking for it. She has developed:

Research has indicated that babies develop knowledge of patterns of language by understanding the likelihood that one stimuli will follow another one. This is known as:

Learning two languages is confusing to small children.

Which type of theorists compares the working of the human mind to information moving through a computer?

In Bauer's recall memory experiments, 20-month-old infants remembered a two-step sequence after a delay of:

In Rovee-Collier's memory experiment, infants showed memory skills if they: