Chapter 7 Quiz

A  Overextension

B  Underregularization

C  Underextension

D  Overregularization

A  Decentration

B  Parent involvement

C  Guided participation

D  Child- chosen activity 

A  Child- chosen activities 

B  Repetition and drill

C  Formal training in reading and writing 

D  Teacher- planned

A  Demonstrate better social skills

B  Have difficulty adjusting to academic tasks once they enter kindergarten 

C  Participate in more teacher-structured activities

D  Are often delayed in social skills 

A  Ordinality 

B  Cardinality

C  Phonological awareness

D  Private speech

A  Less; uses words to echo what others say

B  More; imitates an adults novel behaviors

C  More; engages in social referencing 

D  Less; establishes joint attention

A  Using deliberate mental activités that improve recall

B  Thinking about thought

C  Using a repetitive communication style 

D  Using scripts to tell stories 

A  Repetitive 

B  Metacognitive 

C  Episodic

D  Elaborative 

A  Gross motor development

B  Language development

C  Use of scaffolding 

D  Use of scripts

A  Recall

B  Episodic

C  Planning

D  Recognition

A  Recall memory 

B  Sustained attention

C  Recognition memory

D  Episodic memory

A  Recall

B  Planning

C  Centration

D  Reversibility

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

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

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

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

A  Make-believe

B  Parallel

C  Outdoor

D  Cooperative

A  Scaffolding

B  Proximal teaching

C  Transitive inference

D  Dual representation 

A  Realistic props

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

C  Realistic props

D  To have a firm understanding of conservation

A  Inner

B  Telegraphic 

C  egocentric

D  Private

A  For the pleasure of hearing language 

B  For self-guidance 

C  Because they are egocentric

D  Because they are lonely

A  Self-reflection

B  Language

C  Sensorimotor activity 

D  Egocentrism 

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

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

A  Should respond with “mechanism” explanations

B  Rarely respond informatively, unless the children are extremely persistent 

C  Should respond with “prior cause” explanations

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

A  Flexible and appropriate

B  Rare

C  Almost nonexistent by age 4

D  Exaggerated by their love of storytelling

A  Magical thinking

B  Centration 

C  Irreversibility

D  Dynamic transformation

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

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

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

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

A  Egocentrism

B  Conservation 

C  Dual representation

D  Animistic thinking

A  Dual Representation

B  Egocentrism

C  Irreversibility

D  Animistic thinking 

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

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

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 chair for her doll

C  Pretend that the cup is a rocket

D  Use the cup as a hat

A  Intentional behavior 

B  Role playing

C  Imagination 

D  Sensorimotor activity 

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

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

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

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

A  Boys, girls

B  Girls, boys

C  Shy children, outgoing children 

D  Underactive children, overactive children

A  Mentally retarded 

B  Strong in spatial relationship skills

C  Inattentive and unruly 

D  Extremely tall for her age

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  Supports smooth coordination in movements on both sides of the body

C  Aids in balance and control of body movement

D   Contributes to dramatic gains in motor coordination

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

B  Maintains alertness and consciousness 

C  Aids in balance and control of body movement 

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

A  Support social and emotional development

B  Contribute to spatial skills

C  Contribute to artistic ability 

D  Support motor coordination and thinking

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

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

C  Prenatal events have little to no effect on handedness

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

A  Map reading

B  Language

C  Shape recognition 

D  Drawing

A  Pets

B  Multiple caregivers

C  Regular smokers

D  Lead Paint 

A  Growth

B  Play

C  Thinking

D  Difficult