Question 1

Which of the following statements about handedness is true?

Accepted Answer

A)  Left-handed people have a strong tendency to have left-handed children. 
B)  For right-handed people, language is housed in the left hemisphere. 
C)  The brains of right-handers tend to be less strongly lateralized than those of right-handers. 
D)  Prenatal events have little to no effect on handedness.

Question 2

Improvement in recall in early childhood is strongly associated with

Accepted Answer

A)  language development. 
B)  use of scripts. 
C)  use of scaffolding. 
D)  gross-motor development.

Question 3

Piaget __________ preschoolers' __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  underestimated; magical thinking 
B)  overestimated; animistic beliefs 
C)  overestimated; abstract thinking 
D)  underestimated; egocentrism

Question 4

Five-year-old Sebastian is becoming better at thinking out a sequence of acts ahead of time and allocating his attention accordingly to reach a goal.Sebastian is developing __________ skills.

Accepted Answer

A)  planning 
B)  centration 
C)  reversibility 
D)  recall

Question 5

By age 6 to 7,intelligence test scores are good predictors of later

Accepted Answer

A)  financial success. 
B)  academic achievement. 
C)  college attendance. 
D)  self-esteem.

Question 6

As children move from the sensorimotor to the preoperational stage,

Accepted Answer

A)  make-believe play diminishes. 
B)  thinking becomes abstract. 
C)  the use of objects in play becomes more realistic. 
D)  symbolic mental activity increases.

Question 7

Dan and Steven are considering getting their 4-year-old son a computer.Which of the following statements can you share with them to best help them understand the value of computers in early childhood?

Accepted Answer

A)  Computers have no educational benefits until children are old enough to read fluently. 
B)  The use of word-processing programs in early childhood inhibits writing skills because the programs revise errors. 
C)  Young children who use computers to draw or write produce much less elaborate pictures and text. 
D)  Combining everyday and computer experiences with math manipulatives is especially effective in promoting math concepts and skills.

Question 8

During early childhood,__________ skills increase at an astonishing pace.

Accepted Answer

A)  shape recognition 
B)  drawing 
C)  language 
D)  map reading

Question 9

In well-nourished children,ordinary childhood illnesses

Accepted Answer

A)  occur earlier than in malnourished children. 
B)  often interfere with physical growth. 
C)  often have severe consequences. 
D)  have no effect on physical growth.

Question 10

Two-year-old Sariah hears the words "marker" and "tablet" and assigns each word correctly,to the whole object and not just part of it.She is displaying

Accepted Answer

A)  a shape bias. 
B)  a mutual exclusivity bias. 
C)  overregularization. 
D)  overextension.

Exam 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood