Question 1

At what age do children have an understanding of between 20-30 words?

Accepted Answer

A)  2-3 months 
B)  9-10 months 
C)  12 months 
D)  12-18 months

Question 2

Sarah picks up her spoon, turns over her cup and begins to tap on it. According to Piaget, this experimentation is typical of toddlers from 12-18 months of age who are in which substage of sensorimotor?

Accepted Answer

A)  Primary circular reactions 
B)  Secondary circular reactions 
C)  Tertiary circular reactions 
D)  Beginning of mental representation

Question 3

Why is infant directed speech important in a babies' learning grammar?

Accepted Answer

A)  The high pitch causes babies to pay attention to repeating grammatical forms. 
B)  Recasting holds toddlers attention. 
C)  Expansion directs them to the nouns and verbs used. 
D)  It builds on receptive language.

Question 4

In which substage is a child able to form internal representation?

Accepted Answer

A)  Substage 4: coordination of secondary schemes 
B)  Substage 5: tertiary circular reactions 
C)  Substage 6: beginning of mental representation 
D)  Substage 2: primary circular reactions

Question 5

The Interactionist view of language development bridges the gap between the Nativist and the Behaviorist viewpoints. Please describe one theme from the nativist theory and one from the behaviorist theory that the interactionist theorists also believe.

Accepted Answer

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Question 6

You are playing with a toy with your niece and you suddenly hide it behind your back. Your niece crawls around you to get the toy. This unscientific experiment leads you to believe that she has developed _________ .

Accepted Answer

The answer of You are playing with a toy with...

Question 7

Your sister has a baby boy who is two years old. He had been born prematurely and therefore at-risk of developmental delays. The child's pediatrician has recommended that he be administered the Bayley Scales of Infant Development to gage his developmental abilities but your sister is very anxious about this "test." Describe for her what this intelligence test will be like in terms of the areas of development assessed and three types of activities that are typical.

Accepted Answer

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Question 8

What do researchers refer to as the average sentence length?

Accepted Answer

A)  Mean length of utterance 
B)  Naming explosion 
C)  Variation in expression 
D)  Holophrases

Question 9

In what order does language development proceed?

Accepted Answer

A)  Babbling, cooing, expressive language, receptive language 
B)  Cooing, babbling, receptive language, expressive language 
C)  Babbling, first words, receptive language, expressive language 
D)  Cooing, babbling, telegraphic speech, expressive language

Question 10

Babies love toys such as shape sorters, cabinets that open and close, pocketbooks with hidden treasures, and adults who play peek-a-boo with them. All of these help children to develop which concept that allows them to see that things that are out of sight are not gone forever?

Accepted Answer

A)  Object permanence 
B)  Deferred imitation 
C)  Object concept 
D)  Violation of expectations

Question 11

Explain two current criticisms of Piaget's explanation of cognitive development.

Accepted Answer

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Question 12

What is the best known and most widely used test of infant intelligence?

Accepted Answer

A)  The Denver Developmental 
B)  The Bayley Scales of Infant Development 
C)  The Stanford Binet 
D)  The Wechsler Scales of Intelligence

Question 13

What do primary circular reactions focus on?

Accepted Answer

A)  The infant's own body 
B)  The outside world 
C)  The environment 
D)  The biological processes

Question 14

What are word-gesture combinations that begin at about 12-18 months?

Accepted Answer

A)  Telegraphic speech 
B)  Phonemes 
C)  Receptive language 
D)  Holophrases

Question 15

Young children frequently make up early sentences using which parts of speech?

Accepted Answer

A)  Two verbs such as "go run" 
B)  Two adjectives such as "pretty fast" 
C)  Two nouns such as "mommy shoe" 
D)  A noun and a verb such as "run mommy"

Question 16

Which theorists hypothesize that language development is part of a broader process of cognitive development and is influenced by both internal and external factors?

Accepted Answer

A)  Interactionists 
B)  Linguists 
C)  Nativists 
D)  Behaviorists

Question 17

What is the style of language in which words are used primarily to express feelings and needs about oneself and others?

Accepted Answer

A)  Overextension 
B)  Expressive style 
C)  Referential style 
D)  Infant directed speech

Question 18

An example of a child who has not developed an understanding of hierarchical categorization is which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A)  Milagros knows that she has a doll but not that a doll is also a toy 
B)  Willie knows that a cat is an animal and thinks a banana is too 
C)  Juan knows that a ball is round but not that a grapefruit is also round 
D)  Damarr knows that his sister is a girl but not that his mother is

Question 19

In which substage is the child acting as a little scientist, experimenting in purposeful ways with familiar objects?

Accepted Answer