Question 1

When Alice speaks to her six-month-old nephew,her voice immediately takes on a higher pitch,her speech becomes slower,and she begins to use more simplistic words and phrases.This change in Alice's language behavior provides an example of:

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A) echoing. 
B) recasting. 
C) child-directed speech. 
D) morphology.

Question 2

What is infantile amnesia? What are two explanations given for this phenomenon?

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Question 3

By one year of age after only speaking Japanese since she was born,Maria,doesn't recognize changes in sounds in English words that she previously seemed to notice at three months old.Why do you think Maria lost that ability? Is this normal or a problem? Please support your answer with Patricia Kuhl's research.

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Question 4

A developmental psychologist studying infants' understanding of object permanence uses a method where infants see an event happen as it would normally occur.Then,the event is changed,often in a way that creates a physically impossible event.The result of this is that the infants look longer at the changed event indicating that he or she is surprised by it.Which method is being adopted here?

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A) Violation of expectations 
B) Habituation and dishabituation 
C) Visual preference 
D) Principle of persistence

Question 5

Many experts believe that humans acquired language about _____ years ago.

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A) 2,000,000 
B) 1,000,000 
C) 500,000 
D) 100,000

Question 6

In her book Growing Up with Language,Naomi Baron provided which of the following suggestions for facilitating language development in toddlers?

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A) Remember to listen. 
B) Supply words and thoughts for the child to avoid frustration. 
C) Use questions that encourage the child to answer "yes" or "no." 
D) Let the toddler know when he or she is not being clear in communication.

Question 7

_____ involves the way words are combined to form acceptable phrases and sentences.

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A) Semantics 
B) Phraseology 
C) Syntax 
D) Phonology

Question 8

Alice who is three weeks old is in the _____ substage of Piaget's sensorimotor development; she will latch on to and suck anything that is touched to her lips.

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A) simple reflexes 
B) first habits 
C) secondary circular reactions 
D) primary circular reactions

Question 9

The Bayley Scales of Infant Development are used to assess Mathias,who does very well on it.A high score on the Bayley mental scale:

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A) indicates that Mathias will perform poorly in social skills quotient (SSQ)tests later in childhood. 
B) indicates that Mathias will have a high score in IQ tests later in childhood. 
C) indicates that Mathias will have a very low IQ score later in childhood. 
D) does not indicate that Mathias will have high IQ scores later in childhood.

Question 10

Charisma is six months old and can vocalize pleasure and displeasure,search for objects out of reach,and approach a mirror that is placed in front of her.According to the Bayley Scales of Infant Development,Charisma:

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A) is developing normally. 
B) is developmentally delayed. 
C) has an IQ of 110. 
D) has an IQ of 85.

Question 11

Define receptive vocabulary and spoken vocabulary.What is the relationship between the two?

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Question 12

How many morphemes does the word "marker" have?

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A) four 
B) one 
C) two 
D) six

Question 13

Three-year-old Jesse used to call all moving vehicles "car." He now accurately categorizes moving vehicles into trucks,cars,motorcycles,and buses.Jesse has _____ to fit new information into his existing scheme.

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A) accommodated 
B) assimilated 
C) amalgamated 
D) applied

Question 14

The rules of _____ describe the way meaningful units can be combined in words.

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A) morphology 
B) phonology 
C) syntax 
D) pragmatics

Question 15

The _____ focuses on an infant's ability to process information in such ways as encoding the attributes of objects,detecting similarities and differences between objects,forming mental representations,and retrieving these representations.

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A) developmental quotient 
B) Bayley Scales of Infant Development 
C) Fagan Test of Infant Intelligence 
D) Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale

Question 16

The sentence "The chair told the girl to sit down" is _____ incorrect because people know that chairs cannot talk.

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A) phonologically 
B) syntactically 
C) semantically 
D) pragmatically

Exam 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy