Question 1

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.E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 2

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.E) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

Question 3

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.E) A) and D)
F) C) and D)

Question 4

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.E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 5

Learning two languages is confusing to small children.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

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 theoristsE) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 7

Which feature of language development is not universal?

Accepted Answer

A)   child-directed speech
B)   noun bias
C)   telegraphic speech
D)   increased mylenationE) B) and C)
F) A) and D) B

Question 8

Noun bias is a universal phenomenon.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

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.E) A) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 10

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.E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 11

Infant intelligent tests successfully predict childhood intelligence scores.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

A)   size.
B)   shape.
C)   gender.
D)   function.E) None of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 13

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 reactionsE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 14

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.E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 15

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 processingE) B) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 16

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.E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

(1) Toddlers who have more opportunities...

Question 18

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.E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 19

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.E) A) and D)
F) A) and B) D

Question 20

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.E) A) and C)
F) All of the above

Exam 5: Cognitive and Language Development

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

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

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

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

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

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

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

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

Learning two languages is confusing to small children.

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

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

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

Which feature of language development is not universal?

Correct AnswerverifiedB

Noun bias is a universal phenomenon.

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

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

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

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

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

Infant intelligent tests successfully predict childhood intelligence scores.

Correct AnswerverifiedFalse

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

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

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

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

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

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

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

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

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:

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

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

Correct Answerverified(1) Toddlers who have more opportunities...View AnswerShow Answer

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

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

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

Correct AnswerverifiedD

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:

Correct AnswerverifiedShow Answer

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified
B

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified
False

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified
(1) Toddlers who have more opportunities...
View Answer

Correct Answer
verified

Correct Answer
verified
D

Correct Answer
verified