Chapter 7 Quiz

A  Overregularization

B  Underregularization

C  Overextension

D  Underextension

A  Child- chosen activity 

B  Parent involvement

C  Decentration

D  Guided participation

A  Teacher- planned

B  Child- chosen activities 

C  Repetition and drill

D  Formal training in reading and writing 

A  Demonstrate better social skills

B  Participate in more teacher-structured activities

C  Are often delayed in social skills 

D  Have difficulty adjusting to academic tasks once they enter kindergarten 

A  Cardinality

B  Phonological awareness

C  Ordinality 

D  Private speech

A  More; imitates an adults novel behaviors

B  More; engages in social referencing 

C  Less; uses words to echo what others say

D  Less; establishes joint attention

A  Using deliberate mental activités that improve recall

B  Thinking about thought

C  Using scripts to tell stories 

D  Using a repetitive communication style 

A  Episodic

B  Elaborative 

C  Repetitive 

D  Metacognitive 

A  Use of scripts

B  Language development

C  Gross motor development

D  Use of scaffolding 

A  Recall

B  Recognition

C  Planning

D  Episodic

A  Recall memory 

B  Episodic memory

C  Recognition memory

D  Sustained attention

A  Reversibility

B  Planning

C  Centration

D  Recall

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

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

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

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

A  Parallel

B  Cooperative

C  Outdoor

D  Make-believe

A  Proximal teaching

B  Scaffolding

C  Transitive inference

D  Dual representation 

A  Realistic props

B  To have a firm understanding of conservation

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

D  Realistic props

A  Private

B  Telegraphic 

C  Inner

D  egocentric

A  Because they are egocentric

B  For the pleasure of hearing language 

C  For self-guidance 

D  Because they are lonely

A  Sensorimotor activity 

B  Language

C  Self-reflection

D  Egocentrism 

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

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

A  Should respond with “mechanism” explanations

B  Rarely respond informatively, unless the children are extremely persistent 

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

D  Should respond with “prior cause” explanations

A  Rare

B  Flexible and appropriate

C  Exaggerated by their love of storytelling

D  Almost nonexistent by age 4

A  Dynamic transformation

B  Magical thinking

C  Centration 

D  Irreversibility

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

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

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

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

A  Conservation 

B  Animistic thinking

C  Egocentrism

D  Dual representation

A  Egocentrism

B  Animistic thinking 

C  Dual Representation

D  Irreversibility

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

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

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

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

A  Use the cup as a hat

B  Use the cup as a chair for her doll

C  Pretend that the cup is a rocket

D  Pretend to drink from the cup

A  Imagination 

B  Role playing

C  Sensorimotor activity 

D  Intentional behavior 

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

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

A  Shy children, outgoing children 

B  Underactive children, overactive children

C  Girls, boys

D  Boys, girls

A  Inattentive and unruly 

B  Mentally retarded 

C  Strong in spatial relationship skills

D  Extremely tall for her age

A   Thyroid-stimulating hormone

B  Estrogen

C  Thyroxine

D  Growth hormone (GH)

A   Contributes to dramatic gains in motor coordination

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

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

D  Aids in balance and control of body movement

A  Aids in balance and control of body movement 

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

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

D  Maintains alertness and consciousness 

A  Support social and emotional development

B  Support motor coordination and thinking

C  Contribute to spatial skills

D  Contribute to artistic ability 

A  Prenatal events have little to no effect on handedness

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

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

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

A  Language

B  Shape recognition 

C  Drawing

D  Map reading

A  Regular smokers

B  Lead Paint 

C  Multiple caregivers

D  Pets

A  Thinking

B  Difficult 

C  Growth

D  Play