Chapter 7 Quiz

A  Overextension

B  Overregularization

C  Underregularization

D  Underextension

A  Parent involvement

B  Child- chosen activity 

C  Decentration

D  Guided participation

A  Child- chosen activities 

B  Teacher- planned

C  Repetition and drill

D  Formal training in reading and writing 

A  Have difficulty adjusting to academic tasks once they enter kindergarten 

B  Participate in more teacher-structured activities

C  Are often delayed in social skills 

D  Demonstrate better social skills

A  Ordinality 

B  Private speech

C  Cardinality

D  Phonological awareness

A  More; imitates an adults novel behaviors

B  Less; establishes joint attention

C  Less; uses words to echo what others say

D  More; engages in social referencing 

A  Using scripts to tell stories 

B  Using deliberate mental activités that improve recall

C  Thinking about thought

D  Using a repetitive communication style 

A  Metacognitive 

B  Elaborative 

C  Episodic

D  Repetitive 

A  Use of scaffolding 

B  Use of scripts

C  Language development

D  Gross motor development

A  Planning

B  Episodic

C  Recognition

D  Recall

A  Episodic memory

B  Recognition memory

C  Sustained attention

D  Recall memory 

A  Reversibility

B  Centration

C  Recall

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  Outdoor

C  Make-believe

D  Parallel

A  Proximal teaching

B  Scaffolding

C  Dual representation 

D  Transitive inference

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

B  Realistic props

C  Realistic props

D  To have a firm understanding of conservation

A  Inner

B  Telegraphic 

C  Private

D  egocentric

A  Because they are lonely

B  For the pleasure of hearing language 

C  Because they are egocentric

D  For self-guidance 

A  Self-reflection

B  Sensorimotor activity 

C  Egocentrism 

D  Language

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

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

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  Rarely respond informatively, unless the children are extremely persistent 

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

A  Almost nonexistent by age 4

B  Exaggerated by their love of storytelling

C  Flexible and appropriate

D  Rare

A  Irreversibility

B  Centration 

C  Dynamic transformation

D  Magical thinking

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  Conservation 

B  Dual representation

C  Animistic thinking

D  Egocentrism

A  Dual Representation

B  Egocentrism

C  Animistic thinking 

D  Irreversibility

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

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

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

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  Pretend to drink from the cup

D  Use the cup as a hat

A  Intentional behavior 

B  Role playing

C  Imagination 

D  Sensorimotor activity 

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

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

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

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

A  Underactive children, overactive children

B  Boys, girls

C  Shy children, outgoing children 

D  Girls, boys

A  Strong in spatial relationship skills

B  Mentally retarded 

C  Extremely tall for her age

D  Inattentive and unruly 

A  Thyroxine

B  Growth hormone (GH)

C   Thyroid-stimulating hormone

D  Estrogen

A  Aids in balance and control of body movement

B   Contributes to dramatic gains in motor coordination

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

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

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

B  Maintains alertness and consciousness 

C  Aids in balance and control of body movement 

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

A  Support motor coordination and thinking

B  Support social and emotional development

C  Contribute to artistic ability 

D  Contribute to spatial skills

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

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  Lead Paint 

C  Regular smokers

D  Multiple caregivers

A  Thinking

B  Play

C  Difficult 

D  Growth