Chapter 7 Quiz

A  Underregularization

B  Underextension

C  Overextension

D  Overregularization

A  Guided participation

B  Child- chosen activity 

C  Decentration

D  Parent involvement

A  Teacher- planned

B  Child- chosen activities 

C  Formal training in reading and writing 

D  Repetition and drill

A  Have difficulty adjusting to academic tasks once they enter kindergarten 

B  Demonstrate better social skills

C  Are often delayed in social skills 

D  Participate in more teacher-structured activities

A  Private speech

B  Cardinality

C  Ordinality 

D  Phonological awareness

A  More; engages in social referencing 

B  More; imitates an adults novel behaviors

C  Less; establishes joint attention

D  Less; uses words to echo what others say

A  Using scripts to tell stories 

B  Using deliberate mental activités that improve recall

C  Using a repetitive communication style 

D  Thinking about thought

A  Repetitive 

B  Metacognitive 

C  Episodic

D  Elaborative 

A  Use of scripts

B  Gross motor development

C  Language development

D  Use of scaffolding 

A  Recall

B  Episodic

C  Planning

D  Recognition

A  Recall memory 

B  Sustained attention

C  Recognition memory

D  Episodic 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 is too busy working and maintaining his household to interact with his children

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

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

A  Cooperative

B  Parallel

C  Outdoor

D  Make-believe

A  Dual representation 

B  Scaffolding

C  Transitive inference

D  Proximal teaching

A  Realistic props

B  Realistic props

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

D  To have a firm understanding of conservation

A  egocentric

B  Telegraphic 

C  Inner

D  Private

A  Because they are egocentric

B  For the pleasure of hearing language 

C  For self-guidance 

D  Because they are lonely

A  Self-reflection

B  Egocentrism 

C  Sensorimotor activity 

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  Rarely respond informatively, unless the children are extremely persistent 

B  Should respond with “prior cause” explanations

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

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  Magical thinking

B  Irreversibility

C  Centration 

D  Dynamic transformation

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

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

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

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

A  Animistic thinking

B  Conservation 

C  Egocentrism

D  Dual representation

A  Irreversibility

B  Egocentrism

C  Animistic thinking 

D  Dual Representation

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

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

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

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

A  Pretend to drink from the cup

B  Use the cup as a hat

C  Pretend that the cup is a rocket

D  Use the cup as a chair for her doll

A  Sensorimotor activity 

B  Intentional behavior 

C  Imagination 

D  Role playing

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

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

A  Boys, girls

B  Shy children, outgoing children 

C  Underactive children, overactive children

D  Girls, boys

A  Strong in spatial relationship skills

B  Inattentive and unruly 

C  Mentally retarded 

D  Extremely tall for her age

A  Thyroxine

B  Growth hormone (GH)

C  Estrogen

D   Thyroid-stimulating hormone

A   Contributes to dramatic gains in motor coordination

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  Aids in balance and control of body movement

A  Maintains alertness and consciousness 

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

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

D  Aids in balance and control of body movement 

A  Support motor coordination and thinking

B  Support social and emotional development

C  Contribute to artistic ability 

D  Contribute to spatial skills

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

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

C  Prenatal events have little to no effect on handedness

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

A  Map reading

B  Drawing

C  Language

D  Shape recognition 

A  Lead Paint 

B  Regular smokers

C  Multiple caregivers

D  Pets

A  Play

B  Growth

C  Difficult 

D  Thinking