Question 1 .

According to Luria, at around 3 months of age…

1. The human brain reorganizes itself
2. The Modalities connect and begin work in pairs
3. The Child says his first words
4. All of the above
5. “a” and “b” above.

Question 2 .

At the earliest stages of development the child is using…

1. The proximal modalities exclusively
2. The distal modalities exclusively
3. The distal modalities exclusively
4. Speech and language exclusively
5. All of the above

Question 3 .

  At one year of age, the human brain reorganizes itself…

1. to work in pairs of modalities
2. to work with single modalities independently
3. to work with all modalities as a single unit
4. to make the development of babbling possible
5. all of the above

Question 4 .

The birth cry…

1. Provides valuable information to a doctor about the integrity of the neural and motor system
2. Provides valuable information to a psychiatrist about the emotional status of the infant
3. Doesn’t mean a thing and should be avoided
4. Is an expressive combinative form of communication
5. None of the above.

Question 5 .

Vygotsky called the crying of the infant…

1. a darned nuisance
2. a social communication
3. an expressive combinative form of communication
4. an unavoidable phenomenon
5. b and c above.

Question 6 .

Differentiated crying occurs around…

1. Birth to one minute.
2. 1 minute to 2 months.
3. 2 to 3 months
4. 3 to six months
5. soon after marriage!

Question 7 .

Babbling is…

1. a sign of and is dependent on intelligence.
2. a genetically inherited human behavior.
3. evident in monkeys.
4. prerequisite behavior to getting a Ph.D.
5. “a” and “b” above.

Question 8 .

The phenomenon of babbling occurs from…

1. Birth to one minute.
2. 1 minute to 2 months.
3. 2 to 3 months.
4. 3 to six months.
5. very soon after marriage.

Question 9 .

Motorically at the level when babbling occurs, the child is typically able…

1. catch and throw a ball.
2. to take a single step.
3. climb stairs.
4. jump.
5. hold his/her head up without support.

Question 10 .

Being able to say a sound and then to repeat it voluntarily (like da da da da da) for the infant of 6 to 8 months is called…

1. babbling.
2. differentiated crying.
3. lalling.
4. jargon.
5. speech.

Question 11 .

Prosody is an important feature of…

1. babbling.
2. supra segmental phonemes.
3. jargon.
4. lalling.
5. “b” and “c” above.

Question 12 .

Prosody involves…

1. inflection.
2. stress.
3. rhythm.
4. juncture.
5. all of the above.

Question 13 .

Chomsky hypothesized that language development was facilitated by a special neurological structure he referred to as…

1. LAD
2. DAD.
3. MOM.
4. SLP.
5. LASSIE.

Question 14 .

As speech develops, the consonants of a language appear…

1. In order from the front (lips) to the back of the oral cavity.
2. In order from the back to the front of the oral cavity.
3. In order from the mid to the extremities of the oral cavity.
4. At random in any order.
5. At puberty.

Question 15 .

Echolalia is common verbal behaior that appears around…

1. 0 to 2 months.
2. 2 to 3 months.
3. 3 to 6 months.
4. 6 to 8 months.
5. 8 to 12 months.

Question 16 .

Echolalia includes all the following EXCEPT…

1. meaning.
2. prosody.
3. consonants.
4. imitation.
5. vowels.

Question 17 .

Dad comes into baby’s room and baby consistently says “DA.”  This is an example of…

1. body language.
2. identification language.
3. anticipatory language.
4. echolalia.
5. supra segmental phonemes.

Question 18 .

When baby wants Dad to come and he consistently says,  “DA,” this would be considered…

1. body language.
2. identification language.
3. anticipatory language.
4. echolalia.
5. a supra segmental phoneme.

Question 19 .

A Restricted Language style

1. is more efficient.
2. has fewer grammatical structures.
3. is the product of an authoritarian family philosophy.
4. is less suited for understanding complex concepts.
5. all of the above.

Question 20 .

A three year old child has a lisp.  The best way to handle it is…

1. make fun of him so he stops the behavior.
2. withhold his food until he says it correctly.
3. stuff his tongue back in his mouth with a tongue blade.
4. patiently explain to him the correct way of making the /s/ sound.
5. None of the above.