Chapter 7 Quiz

A  Overregularization

B  Underregularization

C  Overextension

D  Underextension

A  Parent involvement

B  Decentration

C  Child- chosen activity 

D  Guided participation

A  Teacher- planned

B  Child- chosen activities 

C  Repetition and drill

D  Formal training in reading and writing 

A  Demonstrate better social skills

B  Participate in more teacher-structured activities

C  Have difficulty adjusting to academic tasks once they enter kindergarten 

D  Are often delayed in social skills 

A  Private speech

B  Cardinality

C  Phonological awareness

D  Ordinality 

A  Less; establishes joint attention

B  More; engages in social referencing 

C  Less; uses words to echo what others say

D  More; imitates an adults novel behaviors

A  Using scripts to tell stories 

B  Thinking about thought

C  Using deliberate mental activités that improve recall

D  Using a repetitive communication style 

A  Repetitive 

B  Metacognitive 

C  Episodic

D  Elaborative 

A  Use of scaffolding 

B  Gross motor development

C  Use of scripts

D  Language development

A  Episodic

B  Recall

C  Recognition

D  Planning

A  Recall memory 

B  Sustained attention

C  Recognition memory

D  Episodic memory

A  Recall

B  Centration

C  Reversibility

D  Planning

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

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

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

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

A  Cooperative

B  Make-believe

C  Outdoor

D  Parallel

A  Dual representation 

B  Transitive inference

C  Proximal teaching

D  Scaffolding

A  To have a firm understanding of conservation

B  Realistic props

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

D  Realistic props

A  egocentric

B  Inner

C  Telegraphic 

D  Private

A  Because they are egocentric

B  Because they are lonely

C  For the pleasure of hearing language 

D  For self-guidance 

A  Egocentrism 

B  Self-reflection

C  Language

D  Sensorimotor activity 

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

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

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

B  Should respond with “mechanism” explanations

C  Should respond with “prior cause” explanations

D  Rarely respond informatively, unless the children are extremely persistent 

A  Almost nonexistent by age 4

B  Exaggerated by their love of storytelling

C  Flexible and appropriate

D  Rare

A  Irreversibility

B  Magical thinking

C  Dynamic transformation

D  Centration 

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

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

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

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

A  Animistic thinking

B  Dual representation

C  Conservation 

D  Egocentrism

A  Dual Representation

B  Animistic thinking 

C  Egocentrism

D  Irreversibility

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  Use the cup as a chair for her doll

B  Pretend to drink from the cup

C  Pretend that the cup is a rocket

D  Use the cup as a hat

A  Sensorimotor activity 

B  Role playing

C  Imagination 

D  Intentional behavior 

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

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

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

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

A  Girls, boys

B  Boys, girls

C  Underactive children, overactive children

D  Shy children, outgoing children 

A  Inattentive and unruly 

B  Strong in spatial relationship skills

C  Extremely tall for her age

D  Mentally retarded 

A  Estrogen

B  Growth hormone (GH)

C   Thyroid-stimulating hormone

D  Thyroxine

A  Aids in balance and control of body movement

B   Contributes to dramatic gains in motor coordination

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

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

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 artistic ability 

D  Contribute to spatial skills

A  Prenatal events have little to no effect on handedness

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

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

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

A  Language

B  Shape recognition 

C  Drawing

D  Map reading

A  Lead Paint 

B  Regular smokers

C  Pets

D  Multiple caregivers

A  Play

B  Difficult 

C  Thinking

D  Growth