Chapter 7 Quiz

A  Underregularization

B  Underextension

C  Overextension

D  Overregularization

A  Decentration

B  Child- chosen activity 

C  Parent involvement

D  Guided participation

A  Formal training in reading and writing 

B  Teacher- planned

C  Child- chosen activities 

D  Repetition and drill

A  Have difficulty adjusting to academic tasks once they enter kindergarten 

B  Are often delayed in social skills 

C  Demonstrate better social skills

D  Participate in more teacher-structured activities

A  Phonological awareness

B  Cardinality

C  Ordinality 

D  Private speech

A  More; imitates an adults novel behaviors

B  More; engages in social referencing 

C  Less; establishes joint attention

D  Less; uses words to echo what others say

A  Using a repetitive communication style 

B  Thinking about thought

C  Using scripts to tell stories 

D  Using deliberate mental activités that improve recall

A  Metacognitive 

B  Episodic

C  Elaborative 

D  Repetitive 

A  Use of scaffolding 

B  Language development

C  Use of scripts

D  Gross motor development

A  Episodic

B  Recall

C  Recognition

D  Planning

A  Recognition memory

B  Sustained attention

C  Recall memory 

D  Episodic memory

A  Recall

B  Reversibility

C  Centration

D  Planning

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

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

A  Cooperative

B  Parallel

C  Outdoor

D  Make-believe

A  Scaffolding

B  Proximal teaching

C  Transitive inference

D  Dual representation 

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

B  To have a firm understanding of conservation

C  Realistic props

D  Realistic props

A  egocentric

B  Inner

C  Private

D  Telegraphic 

A  Because they are lonely

B  Because they are egocentric

C  For the pleasure of hearing language 

D  For self-guidance 

A  Sensorimotor activity 

B  Language

C  Egocentrism 

D  Self-reflection

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

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

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

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

A  Should respond with “prior cause” 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 “mechanism” explanations

A  Flexible and appropriate

B  Rare

C  Almost nonexistent by age 4

D  Exaggerated by their love of storytelling

A  Centration 

B  Irreversibility

C  Magical thinking

D  Dynamic transformation

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  Failure to distinguish others symbolic viewpoints from one’s own 

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

A  Animistic thinking

B  Dual representation

C  Egocentrism

D  Conservation 

A  Egocentrism

B  Dual Representation

C  Animistic thinking 

D  Irreversibility

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

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

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

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

A  Pretend to drink from the cup

B  Use the cup as a hat

C  Pretend that the cup is a rocket

D  Use the cup as a chair for her doll

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  Parents tend to foster gender stereotyped physical activities in their children 

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

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

A  Girls, boys

B  Shy children, outgoing children 

C  Underactive children, overactive children

D  Boys, girls

A  Mentally retarded 

B  Inattentive and unruly 

C  Strong in spatial relationship skills

D  Extremely tall for her age

A  Thyroxine

B  Growth hormone (GH)

C   Thyroid-stimulating hormone

D  Estrogen

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   Contributes to dramatic gains in motor coordination

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

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

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

C  Prenatal events have little to no effect on handedness

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

A  Map reading

B  Language

C  Shape recognition 

D  Drawing

A  Pets

B  Regular smokers

C  Lead Paint 

D  Multiple caregivers

A  Difficult 

B  Play

C  Thinking

D  Growth