Chapter 7 Quiz

A  Overregularization

B  Underextension

C  Underregularization

D  Overextension

A  Decentration

B  Guided participation

C  Parent involvement

D  Child- chosen activity 

A  Teacher- planned

B  Repetition and drill

C  Formal training in reading and writing 

D  Child- chosen activities 

A  Demonstrate better social skills

B  Participate in more teacher-structured activities

C  Have difficulty adjusting to academic tasks once they enter kindergarten 

D  Are often delayed in social skills 

A  Ordinality 

B  Private speech

C  Cardinality

D  Phonological awareness

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 scripts to tell stories 

B  Thinking about thought

C  Using deliberate mental activités that improve recall

D  Using a repetitive communication style 

A  Episodic

B  Metacognitive 

C  Elaborative 

D  Repetitive 

A  Language development

B  Gross motor development

C  Use of scripts

D  Use of scaffolding 

A  Episodic

B  Recall

C  Recognition

D  Planning

A  Sustained attention

B  Episodic memory

C  Recall memory 

D  Recognition memory

A  Recall

B  Planning

C  Centration

D  Reversibility

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

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

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

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

A  Parallel

B  Make-believe

C  Outdoor

D  Cooperative

A  Proximal teaching

B  Dual representation 

C  Scaffolding

D  Transitive inference

A  To have a firm understanding of conservation

B  Realistic props

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

D  Realistic props

A  Private

B  Telegraphic 

C  egocentric

D  Inner

A  Because they are egocentric

B  For the pleasure of hearing language 

C  Because they are lonely

D  For self-guidance 

A  Self-reflection

B  Sensorimotor activity 

C  Egocentrism 

D  Language

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

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

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  Should respond with “mechanism” explanations

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

A  Exaggerated by their love of storytelling

B  Rare

C  Flexible and appropriate

D  Almost nonexistent by age 4

A  Centration 

B  Magical thinking

C  Irreversibility

D  Dynamic transformation

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

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

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  Egocentrism

B  Dual representation

C  Conservation 

D  Animistic thinking

A  Egocentrism

B  Dual Representation

C  Animistic thinking 

D  Irreversibility

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

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

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

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

A  Pretend that the cup is a rocket

B  Use the cup as a chair for her doll

C  Pretend to drink from the cup

D  Use the cup as a hat

A  Imagination 

B  Intentional behavior 

C  Sensorimotor activity 

D  Role playing

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  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  Shy children, outgoing children 

B  Underactive children, overactive children

C  Boys, girls

D  Girls, boys

A  Extremely tall for her age

B  Mentally retarded 

C  Strong in spatial relationship skills

D  Inattentive and unruly 

A  Growth hormone (GH)

B  Thyroxine

C   Thyroid-stimulating hormone

D  Estrogen

A  Aids in balance and control of body movement

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

C   Contributes to dramatic gains in motor coordination

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

A  Maintains alertness and consciousness 

B  Aids in balance and control of body movement 

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

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 artistic ability 

C  Contribute to spatial skills

D  Support motor coordination and thinking

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

B  Prenatal events have little to no effect on handedness

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

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

A  Shape recognition 

B  Drawing

C  Map reading

D  Language

A  Pets

B  Regular smokers

C  Lead Paint 

D  Multiple caregivers

A  Thinking

B  Growth

C  Difficult 

D  Play