Chapter 7 Quiz

A  Underextension

B  Underregularization

C  Overregularization

D  Overextension

A  Decentration

B  Guided participation

C  Parent involvement

D  Child- chosen activity 

A  Teacher- planned

B  Formal training in reading and writing 

C  Repetition and drill

D  Child- chosen activities 

A  Are often delayed in social skills 

B  Have difficulty adjusting to academic tasks once they enter kindergarten 

C  Demonstrate better social skills

D  Participate in more teacher-structured activities

A  Cardinality

B  Phonological awareness

C  Private speech

D  Ordinality 

A  Less; establishes joint attention

B  Less; uses words to echo what others say

C  More; engages in social referencing 

D  More; imitates an adults novel behaviors

A  Using a repetitive communication style 

B  Thinking about thought

C  Using scripts to tell stories 

D  Using deliberate mental activités that improve recall

A  Metacognitive 

B  Repetitive 

C  Elaborative 

D  Episodic

A  Use of scaffolding 

B  Language development

C  Use of scripts

D  Gross motor development

A  Recognition

B  Recall

C  Planning

D  Episodic

A  Recognition memory

B  Recall memory 

C  Sustained attention

D  Episodic memory

A  Recall

B  Planning

C  Centration

D  Reversibility

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

B   Ignacio is too busy working and maintaining his household to interact with his children

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  Cooperative

B  Outdoor

C  Parallel

D  Make-believe

A  Transitive inference

B  Dual representation 

C  Proximal teaching

D  Scaffolding

A  Realistic props

B  Realistic props

C  To have a firm understanding of conservation

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

A  Telegraphic 

B  Inner

C  egocentric

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  Language

D  Sensorimotor activity 

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

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

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

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

A  Should respond with “prior cause” explanations

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

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  Rare

D  Almost nonexistent by age 4

A  Irreversibility

B  Dynamic transformation

C  Magical thinking

D  Centration 

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

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

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

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

A  Conservation 

B  Dual representation

C  Animistic thinking

D  Egocentrism

A  Animistic thinking 

B  Dual Representation

C  Irreversibility

D  Egocentrism

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  Rajesh, who spends more of his time with building blocks 

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

A  Use the cup as a chair for her doll

B  Pretend to drink from the cup

C  Use the cup as a hat

D  Pretend that the cup is a rocket

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  Parents tend to foster gender stereotyped physical activities in their children 

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

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

A  Underactive children, overactive children

B  Girls, boys

C  Boys, girls

D  Shy children, outgoing children 

A  Strong in spatial relationship skills

B  Mentally retarded 

C  Extremely tall for her age

D  Inattentive and unruly 

A  Thyroxine

B   Thyroid-stimulating hormone

C  Growth hormone (GH)

D  Estrogen

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

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

C  Aids in balance and control of body movement

D   Contributes to dramatic gains in motor coordination

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

B  Aids in balance and control of body movement 

C  Maintains alertness and consciousness 

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

A  Contribute to spatial skills

B  Support social and emotional development

C  Contribute to artistic ability 

D  Support motor coordination and thinking

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

B  Prenatal events have little to no effect on handedness

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

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  Multiple caregivers

B  Pets

C  Regular smokers

D  Lead Paint 

A  Play

B  Growth

C  Thinking

D  Difficult