Chapter 7 Quiz

A  Underregularization

B  Overextension

C  Underextension

D  Overregularization

A  Decentration

B  Parent involvement

C  Child- chosen activity 

D  Guided participation

A  Child- chosen activities 

B  Teacher- planned

C  Repetition and drill

D  Formal training in reading and writing 

A  Demonstrate better social skills

B  Are often delayed in social skills 

C  Participate in more teacher-structured activities

D  Have difficulty adjusting to academic tasks once they enter kindergarten 

A  Cardinality

B  Ordinality 

C  Private speech

D  Phonological awareness

A  Less; establishes joint attention

B  More; imitates an adults novel behaviors

C  More; engages in social referencing 

D  Less; uses words to echo what others say

A  Thinking about thought

B  Using a repetitive communication style 

C  Using scripts to tell stories 

D  Using deliberate mental activités that improve recall

A  Elaborative 

B  Repetitive 

C  Episodic

D  Metacognitive 

A  Language development

B  Use of scaffolding 

C  Use of scripts

D  Gross motor development

A  Recall

B  Recognition

C  Episodic

D  Planning

A  Recognition memory

B  Episodic memory

C  Sustained attention

D  Recall memory 

A  Reversibility

B  Centration

C  Recall

D  Planning

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

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

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

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

A  Make-believe

B  Parallel

C  Outdoor

D  Cooperative

A  Transitive inference

B  Proximal teaching

C  Scaffolding

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  Private

C  egocentric

D  Telegraphic 

A  For self-guidance 

B  For the pleasure of hearing language 

C  Because they are egocentric

D  Because they are lonely

A  Self-reflection

B  Sensorimotor activity 

C  Egocentrism 

D  Language

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

B  Rarely respond informatively, unless the children are extremely persistent 

C  Should respond with “mechanism” explanations

D  Should respond with “prior cause” explanations

A  Almost nonexistent by age 4

B  Flexible and appropriate

C  Rare

D  Exaggerated by their love of storytelling

A  Irreversibility

B  Centration 

C  Magical thinking

D  Dynamic transformation

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

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

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

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

A  Conservation 

B  Dual representation

C  Egocentrism

D  Animistic thinking

A  Animistic thinking 

B  Egocentrism

C  Irreversibility

D  Dual Representation

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

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

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

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

A  Use the cup as a chair for her doll

B  Pretend that the cup is a rocket

C  Use the cup as a hat

D  Pretend to drink from the cup

A  Imagination 

B  Intentional behavior 

C  Sensorimotor activity 

D  Role playing

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

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

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  Girls, boys

B  Boys, girls

C  Underactive children, overactive children

D  Shy children, outgoing children 

A  Strong in spatial relationship skills

B  Mentally retarded 

C  Extremely tall for her age

D  Inattentive and unruly 

A   Thyroid-stimulating hormone

B  Estrogen

C  Growth hormone (GH)

D  Thyroxine

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

B   Contributes to dramatic gains in motor coordination

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

D  Aids in balance and control of body movement

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

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  Maintains alertness and consciousness 

A  Support motor coordination and thinking

B  Contribute to artistic ability 

C  Contribute to spatial skills

D  Support social and emotional development

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

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

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

D  Prenatal events have little to no effect on handedness

A  Shape recognition 

B  Language

C  Drawing

D  Map reading

A  Lead Paint 

B  Pets

C  Multiple caregivers

D  Regular smokers

A  Thinking

B  Play

C  Difficult 

D  Growth