Chapter 7 Quiz

A  Overextension

B  Overregularization

C  Underextension

D  Underregularization

A  Decentration

B  Child- chosen activity 

C  Parent involvement

D  Guided participation

A  Teacher- planned

B  Formal training in reading and writing 

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  Ordinality 

B  Phonological awareness

C  Cardinality

D  Private speech

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  Thinking about thought

B  Using deliberate mental activités that improve recall

C  Using scripts to tell stories 

D  Using a repetitive communication style 

A  Repetitive 

B  Episodic

C  Metacognitive 

D  Elaborative 

A  Use of scaffolding 

B  Gross motor development

C  Language development

D  Use of scripts

A  Episodic

B  Planning

C  Recall

D  Recognition

A  Episodic memory

B  Recognition memory

C  Recall memory 

D  Sustained attention

A  Recall

B  Reversibility

C  Planning

D  Centration

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

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

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  Outdoor

C  Parallel

D  Cooperative

A  Scaffolding

B  Proximal teaching

C  Dual representation 

D  Transitive inference

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

B  Realistic props

C  To have a firm understanding of conservation

D  Realistic props

A  Private

B  egocentric

C  Telegraphic 

D  Inner

A  For the pleasure of hearing language 

B  Because they are egocentric

C  Because they are lonely

D  For self-guidance 

A  Language

B  Egocentrism 

C  Self-reflection

D  Sensorimotor activity 

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  Should respond with “prior cause” explanations

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

D  Rarely respond informatively, unless the children are extremely persistent 

A  Flexible and appropriate

B  Almost nonexistent by age 4

C  Rare

D  Exaggerated by their love of storytelling

A  Magical thinking

B  Dynamic transformation

C  Irreversibility

D  Centration 

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  Animistic thinking

B  Egocentrism

C  Dual representation

D  Conservation 

A  Dual Representation

B  Irreversibility

C  Egocentrism

D  Animistic thinking 

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  Use the cup as a hat

B  Pretend that the cup is a rocket

C  Pretend to drink from the cup

D  Use the cup as a chair for her doll

A  Role playing

B  Intentional behavior 

C  Sensorimotor activity 

D  Imagination 

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

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

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

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

A  Underactive children, overactive children

B  Shy children, outgoing children 

C  Boys, girls

D  Girls, boys

A  Strong in spatial relationship skills

B  Mentally retarded 

C  Extremely tall for her age

D  Inattentive and unruly 

A  Growth hormone (GH)

B   Thyroid-stimulating hormone

C  Thyroxine

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

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

C  Maintains alertness and consciousness 

D  Aids in balance and control of body movement 

A  Contribute to spatial skills

B  Contribute to artistic ability 

C  Support motor coordination and thinking

D  Support social and emotional development

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

B  Prenatal events have little to no effect on handedness

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

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

A  Shape recognition 

B  Language

C  Map reading

D  Drawing

A  Multiple caregivers

B  Lead Paint 

C  Pets

D  Regular smokers

A  Growth

B  Play

C  Thinking

D  Difficult