Chapter 7 Quiz

A  Underextension

B  Underregularization

C  Overregularization

D  Overextension

A  Guided participation

B  Parent involvement

C  Decentration

D  Child- chosen activity 

A  Formal training in reading and writing 

B  Teacher- planned

C  Child- chosen activities 

D  Repetition and drill

A  Are often delayed in social skills 

B  Demonstrate better social skills

C  Have difficulty adjusting to academic tasks once they enter kindergarten 

D  Participate in more teacher-structured activities

A  Cardinality

B  Private speech

C  Phonological awareness

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 deliberate mental activités that improve recall

B  Thinking about thought

C  Using scripts to tell stories 

D  Using a repetitive communication style 

A  Metacognitive 

B  Elaborative 

C  Episodic

D  Repetitive 

A  Gross motor development

B  Use of scripts

C  Language development

D  Use of scaffolding 

A  Episodic

B  Planning

C  Recognition

D  Recall

A  Sustained attention

B  Episodic memory

C  Recognition memory

D  Recall memory 

A  Planning

B  Reversibility

C  Centration

D  Recall

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’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  Make-believe

B  Cooperative

C  Outdoor

D  Parallel

A  Scaffolding

B  Transitive inference

C  Proximal teaching

D  Dual representation 

A  To have a firm understanding of conservation

B  Realistic props

C  Realistic props

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

A  Telegraphic 

B  Private

C  egocentric

D  Inner

A  For self-guidance 

B  Because they are lonely

C  For the pleasure of hearing language 

D  Because they are egocentric

A  Sensorimotor activity 

B  Self-reflection

C  Egocentrism 

D  Language

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

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

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

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

A  Should respond with “mechanism” explanations

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

C  Should respond with “prior cause” explanations

D  Rarely respond informatively, unless the children are extremely persistent 

A  Exaggerated by their love of storytelling

B  Rare

C  Almost nonexistent by age 4

D  Flexible and appropriate

A  Centration 

B  Dynamic transformation

C  Irreversibility

D  Magical thinking

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  Dual representation

B  Conservation 

C  Animistic thinking

D  Egocentrism

A  Egocentrism

B  Dual Representation

C  Irreversibility

D  Animistic thinking 

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  Imagination 

B  Intentional behavior 

C  Sensorimotor activity 

D  Role playing

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

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

A  Girls, boys

B  Underactive children, overactive children

C  Boys, girls

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  Growth hormone (GH)

B  Estrogen

C   Thyroid-stimulating hormone

D  Thyroxine

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

B   Contributes to dramatic gains in motor coordination

C  Aids in balance and control of body movement

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

A  Maintains alertness and consciousness 

B  Aids in balance and control of body movement 

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

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

A  Support social and emotional development

B  Contribute to artistic ability 

C  Support motor coordination and thinking

D  Contribute to spatial skills

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  Shape recognition 

B  Language

C  Map reading

D  Drawing

A  Lead Paint 

B  Pets

C  Multiple caregivers

D  Regular smokers

A  Play

B  Difficult 

C  Thinking

D  Growth