Chapter 7 Quiz

A  Underextension

B  Underregularization

C  Overextension

D  Overregularization

A  Parent involvement

B  Decentration

C  Guided participation

D  Child- chosen activity 

A  Formal training in reading and writing 

B  Teacher- planned

C  Repetition and drill

D  Child- chosen activities 

A  Have difficulty adjusting to academic tasks once they enter kindergarten 

B  Are often delayed in social skills 

C  Participate in more teacher-structured activities

D  Demonstrate better social skills

A  Private speech

B  Cardinality

C  Phonological awareness

D  Ordinality 

A  Less; establishes joint attention

B  More; imitates an adults novel behaviors

C  Less; uses words to echo what others say

D  More; engages in social referencing 

A  Using a repetitive communication style 

B  Using scripts to tell stories 

C  Thinking about thought

D  Using deliberate mental activités that improve recall

A  Episodic

B  Elaborative 

C  Repetitive 

D  Metacognitive 

A  Use of scaffolding 

B  Gross motor development

C  Use of scripts

D  Language development

A  Recognition

B  Planning

C  Recall

D  Episodic

A  Recognition memory

B  Sustained attention

C  Episodic memory

D  Recall memory 

A  Recall

B  Reversibility

C  Centration

D  Planning

A  Ignacio’s young children spend most of their time playing with and talking to age mates

B   Ignacio is too busy working and maintaining his household to interact with his children

C  Ignacio’s children spend their day in contact with adult work and start to assume mature responsibilities in early childhood

D  Ignacio instead focuses on preparing his children for academic success and civic Engagement 

A  Cooperative

B  Parallel

C  Outdoor

D  Make-believe

A  Proximal teaching

B  Transitive inference

C  Scaffolding

D  Dual representation 

A  Realistic props

B  To have a firm understanding of conservation

C  Realistic props

D  Step-by-step instructions from an adult or older child

A  egocentric

B  Inner

C  Telegraphic 

D  Private

A  Because they are egocentric

B  For self-guidance 

C  For the pleasure of hearing language 

D  Because they are lonely

A  Sensorimotor activity 

B  Egocentrism 

C  Self-reflection

D  Language

A  Piaget was partly right and partly wrong about young children’s cognitive 

B  When given simplified tasks based on familiar experiences, preschoolers rely on trial and error to solve problems 

C  Preschoolers rely on faulty logic to solve problems even when given simplified tasks based on familiar experiences

D  When given simplified tasks based on familiar experiences, preschoolers rely on trial and error to solve problems 

A  Should respond with “mechanism” explanations

B  Adjust the complexity of their answers to fit their children’s maturity 

C  Rarely respond informatively, unless the children are extremely persistent 

D  Should respond with “prior cause” explanations

A  Rare

B  Almost nonexistent by age 4

C  Flexible and appropriate

D  Exaggerated by their love of storytelling

A  Magical thinking

B  Centration 

C  Dynamic transformation

D  Irreversibility

A  Believe that inanimate objects have lifelike qualities, such as thoughts, wishes, feelings, and intentions 

B  Inability to mentally go through a series of steps and then reverse direction, returning to the starting point

C  Idea that certain physical characteristics of objects remain the same, even when their outward appearance changes

D  Failure to distinguish others symbolic viewpoints from one’s own 

A  Conservation 

B  Animistic thinking

C  Dual representation

D  Egocentrism

A  Animistic thinking 

B  Dual Representation

C  Egocentrism

D  Irreversibility

A  Kendra, who spends more of her time with sociodramatic play

B  Sasha, who spends more of her time in the reading corner

C  Rajesh, who spends more of his time with building blocks 

D  Tim, who spends more of his time in the art corner

A  Pretend to drink from the cup

B  Use the cup as a hat

C  Use the cup as a chair for her doll

D  Pretend that the cup is a rocket

A  Sensorimotor activity 

B  Intentional behavior 

C  Role playing

D  Imagination 

A  Parents tend to foster gender stereotyped physical activities in their children 

B  Preschoolers exposed to formal lessons tend to be advanced in gross-motor development 

C  Sex difference in motor skills are largely due to genetically based differences

D  In early childhood, girls have a slight edge over boy in skills that emphasize force and power 

A  Boys, girls

B  Underactive children, overactive children

C  Shy children, outgoing children 

D  Girls, boys

A  Extremely tall for her age

B  Inattentive and unruly 

C  Mentally retarded 

D  Strong in spatial relationship skills

A  Thyroxine

B   Thyroid-stimulating hormone

C  Growth hormone (GH)

D  Estrogen

A  Plays a vital role in memory and in image of space that helps us find our way

B  Aids in balance and control of body movement

C  Supports smooth coordination in movements on both sides of the body

D   Contributes to dramatic gains in motor coordination

A  Maintains alertness and consciousness 

B  Plays a vital role in memory and in image of space that helps us find our way 

C  Aids in balance and control of body movement 

D  Is a large bundle of fibers connecting the two cerebral hemisphere

A  Support motor coordination and thinking

B  Contribute to spatial skills

C  Support social and emotional development

D  Contribute to artistic ability 

A  The brains of right-handers then to be less strongly lateralized than those of right-handers

B  Left handed people have a strong tendency to have left handed children

C  Prenatal events have little to no effect on handedness

D  For right-handed people language is housed in the left hemisphere

A  Map reading

B  Language

C  Shape recognition 

D  Drawing

A  Regular smokers

B  Pets

C  Multiple caregivers

D  Lead Paint 

A  Thinking

B  Play

C  Growth

D  Difficult