Chapter 7 Quiz

A  Overextension

B  Overregularization

C  Underregularization

D  Underextension

A  Guided participation

B  Child- chosen activity 

C  Parent involvement

D  Decentration

A  Formal training in reading and writing 

B  Repetition and drill

C  Teacher- planned

D  Child- chosen activities 

A  Are often delayed in social skills 

B  Participate in more teacher-structured activities

C  Demonstrate better social skills

D  Have difficulty adjusting to academic tasks once they enter kindergarten 

A  Cardinality

B  Private speech

C  Phonological awareness

D  Ordinality 

A  More; engages in social referencing 

B  Less; establishes joint attention

C  More; imitates an adults novel behaviors

D  Less; uses words to echo what others say

A  Thinking about thought

B  Using a repetitive communication style 

C  Using deliberate mental activités that improve recall

D  Using scripts to tell stories 

A  Elaborative 

B  Metacognitive 

C  Episodic

D  Repetitive 

A  Language development

B  Gross motor development

C  Use of scripts

D  Use of scaffolding 

A  Planning

B  Episodic

C  Recall

D  Recognition

A  Episodic memory

B  Recognition memory

C  Sustained attention

D  Recall memory 

A  Centration

B  Recall

C  Planning

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

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

A  Parallel

B  Make-believe

C  Cooperative

D  Outdoor

A  Dual representation 

B  Transitive inference

C  Scaffolding

D  Proximal teaching

A  Realistic props

B  To have a firm understanding of conservation

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

D  Realistic props

A  Private

B  egocentric

C  Telegraphic 

D  Inner

A  Because they are lonely

B  For the pleasure of hearing language 

C  Because they are egocentric

D  For self-guidance 

A  Sensorimotor activity 

B  Self-reflection

C  Egocentrism 

D  Language

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

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

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

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

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

B  Should respond with “prior cause” explanations

C  Rarely respond informatively, unless the children are extremely persistent 

D  Should respond with “mechanism” explanations

A  Flexible and appropriate

B  Exaggerated by their love of storytelling

C  Almost nonexistent by age 4

D  Rare

A  Irreversibility

B  Magical thinking

C  Centration 

D  Dynamic transformation

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

B  Idea that certain physical characteristics of objects remain the same, even when their outward appearance changes

C  Failure to distinguish others symbolic viewpoints from one’s own 

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

A  Dual representation

B  Conservation 

C  Egocentrism

D  Animistic thinking

A  Irreversibility

B  Dual Representation

C  Animistic thinking 

D  Egocentrism

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

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

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

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

A  Pretend that the cup is a rocket

B  Pretend to drink from the cup

C  Use the cup as a hat

D  Use the cup as a chair for her doll

A  Role playing

B  Imagination 

C  Intentional behavior 

D  Sensorimotor activity 

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

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

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

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

A  Boys, girls

B  Girls, boys

C  Underactive children, overactive children

D  Shy children, outgoing children 

A  Mentally retarded 

B  Strong in spatial relationship skills

C  Inattentive and unruly 

D  Extremely tall for her age

A  Estrogen

B   Thyroid-stimulating hormone

C  Growth hormone (GH)

D  Thyroxine

A  Aids in balance and control of body movement

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

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

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 artistic ability 

B  Contribute to spatial skills

C  Support motor coordination and thinking

D  Support social and emotional development

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

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

C  Prenatal events have little to no effect on handedness

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

A  Language

B  Drawing

C  Map reading

D  Shape recognition 

A  Multiple caregivers

B  Lead Paint 

C  Pets

D  Regular smokers

A  Difficult 

B  Thinking

C  Play

D  Growth