Chapter 7 Quiz

A  Underregularization

B  Overregularization

C  Overextension

D  Underextension

A  Parent involvement

B  Guided participation

C  Child- chosen activity 

D  Decentration

A  Child- chosen activities 

B  Formal training in reading and writing 

C  Teacher- planned

D  Repetition and drill

A  Have difficulty adjusting to academic tasks once they enter kindergarten 

B  Demonstrate better social skills

C  Participate in more teacher-structured activities

D  Are often delayed in social skills 

A  Phonological awareness

B  Cardinality

C  Private speech

D  Ordinality 

A  More; imitates an adults novel behaviors

B  Less; uses words to echo what others say

C  Less; establishes joint attention

D  More; engages in social referencing 

A  Using a repetitive communication style 

B  Using scripts to tell stories 

C  Using deliberate mental activités that improve recall

D  Thinking about thought

A  Episodic

B  Metacognitive 

C  Repetitive 

D  Elaborative 

A  Use of scripts

B  Use of scaffolding 

C  Language development

D  Gross motor development

A  Recall

B  Recognition

C  Episodic

D  Planning

A  Episodic memory

B  Recall memory 

C  Recognition memory

D  Sustained attention

A  Planning

B  Recall

C  Reversibility

D  Centration

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

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

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

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

A  Make-believe

B  Outdoor

C  Parallel

D  Cooperative

A  Proximal teaching

B  Transitive inference

C  Dual representation 

D  Scaffolding

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  egocentric

B  Private

C  Inner

D  Telegraphic 

A  Because they are egocentric

B  For self-guidance 

C  Because they are lonely

D  For the pleasure of hearing language 

A  Self-reflection

B  Language

C  Sensorimotor activity 

D  Egocentrism 

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

B  Rarely respond informatively, unless the children are extremely persistent 

C  Should respond with “prior cause” explanations

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  Dynamic transformation

D  Centration 

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

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

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

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

A  Egocentrism

B  Animistic thinking

C  Dual representation

D  Conservation 

A  Dual Representation

B  Irreversibility

C  Egocentrism

D  Animistic thinking 

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

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

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

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

A  Use the cup as a hat

B  Pretend to drink from the cup

C  Pretend that the cup is a rocket

D  Use the cup as a chair for her doll

A  Intentional behavior 

B  Imagination 

C  Role playing

D  Sensorimotor activity 

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

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

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  Shy children, outgoing children 

B  Underactive children, overactive children

C  Girls, boys

D  Boys, girls

A  Strong in spatial relationship skills

B  Mentally retarded 

C  Extremely tall for her age

D  Inattentive and unruly 

A  Growth hormone (GH)

B  Estrogen

C  Thyroxine

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

B  Maintains alertness and consciousness 

C  Aids in balance and control of body movement 

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

A  Support motor coordination and thinking

B  Support social and emotional development

C  Contribute to spatial skills

D  Contribute to artistic ability 

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

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

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

D  Prenatal events have little to no effect on handedness

A  Drawing

B  Shape recognition 

C  Map reading

D  Language

A  Regular smokers

B  Pets

C  Lead Paint 

D  Multiple caregivers

A  Difficult 

B  Play

C  Thinking

D  Growth