Chapter 5 Quiz

A  childhood is a sensitive period for language acquisition

B  sign language can be learned equally well at any age

C  children in varying cultures reach major language milestones in a different sequence

D  children’s progress in mastering many sentence constructions is gradual

A  By age 5 months, babies are more emotionally responsive to adult talk than to IDS.

B  Deaf parents use a similar style of communication to IDS when signing to their deaf babies.

C  Infants prefer adult talk to infant-directed speech (IDS).

D  Parents’ use of IDS results in the child’s extended use of “baby” talk.

A  common behaviors.

B  similar overall appearance.

C  prominent object part.

D  subtle sets of features.

A  declines.

B  is strongest when videos are interactive.

C  increases.

D  is strongest when videos are rich in social cues.

A  habituation.

B  invisible displacement.

C  deferred imitation.

D  the violation-of-expectation method.

A  tertiary circular reactions in the first few months of life.

B  mental representations in babies between 12 and 15 months of age.

C  object permanence in the first few months of life.

D  mental representations in babies between 6 and 12 months of age.

A  the onset of telegraphic speech.

B  the development of autobiographical memory.

C  the development of reflexive schemes.

D  rapid development of the frontal lobes of the cerebral cortex.

A  poorly predict later intelligence.

B  accurately predict later school achievement.

C  overemphasize problem-solving skills.

D  are good predictors of preschool mental test performance.

A  4

B  2

C  3

D  1

A  refers to a range of tasks too difficult for the child to do alone but possible with the help of more skilled partners.

B  includes core domains of thought, such as physical knowledge, linguistic knowledge, psychological knowledge, and numerical knowledge.

C  is a Piagetian concept that provides that infants stumble onto a new experience and then actively try to repeat it.

D  helps identify for intervention babies who are likely to have developmental problems.

A  telegraphic speech; babbling

B  production; comprehension

C  comprehension; production

D  overextension; underextension

A  adaptation.

B  assimilation.

C  accommodation.

D  organization.

A  Babies typically begin babbling around 2 months and cooing around 6 months.

B  A deaf infant does not coo or babble.

C  Babies everywhere start babbling at about the same age and produce a similar range of early sounds.

D  Before babies say their first words, they make little language progress.

A  assimilation.

B  equilibrium.

C  organization.

D  accommodation.

A  rely on infant-directed speech.

B  wait until she understands a great deal before trying to speak.

C  be slightly ahead of her agemates in vocabulary growth.

D  receive more verbal stimulation from her parents.

A  growth of the temporal lobe

B  an increase in memory capacity

C  the advent of a clear self-image

D  exposure to child-directed speech

A  adaptation and organization account for changes in children’s schemes.

B  children master activities through joint activities with more mature members of their society.

C  complex mental activities have their origin in perception, attention, and memory.

D  babies are born with a set of innate knowledge systems.

A  sensorimotor action patterns.

B  awkward and disorganized.

C  creative.

D  deliberate.

A  arrive at solutions suddenly rather than through trial and error.

B  repeat chance behaviors largely motivated by basic needs.

C  create mental representations.

D  repeat behaviors with variation.