Chapter 7 Quiz

A  Overextension

B  Underregularization

C  Overregularization

D  Underextension

A  Decentration

B  Parent involvement

C  Child- chosen activity 

D  Guided participation

A  Formal training in reading and writing 

B  Child- chosen activities 

C  Repetition and drill

D  Teacher- planned

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  Cardinality

B  Phonological awareness

C  Private speech

D  Ordinality 

A  Less; uses words to echo what others say

B  More; engages in social referencing 

C  More; imitates an adults novel behaviors

D  Less; establishes joint attention

A  Thinking about thought

B  Using scripts to tell stories 

C  Using deliberate mental activités that improve recall

D  Using a repetitive communication style 

A  Episodic

B  Metacognitive 

C  Repetitive 

D  Elaborative 

A  Use of scripts

B  Language development

C  Use of scaffolding 

D  Gross motor development

A  Planning

B  Episodic

C  Recall

D  Recognition

A  Recall memory 

B  Episodic memory

C  Sustained attention

D  Recognition memory

A  Centration

B  Recall

C  Reversibility

D  Planning

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

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

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

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

A  Cooperative

B  Parallel

C  Make-believe

D  Outdoor

A  Transitive inference

B  Scaffolding

C  Proximal teaching

D  Dual representation 

A  Realistic props

B  To have a firm understanding of conservation

C  Realistic props

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

A  egocentric

B  Telegraphic 

C  Inner

D  Private

A  For the pleasure of hearing language 

B  Because they are lonely

C  For self-guidance 

D  Because they are egocentric

A  Egocentrism 

B  Language

C  Sensorimotor activity 

D  Self-reflection

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

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

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  Rarely respond informatively, unless the children are extremely persistent 

C  Should respond with “mechanism” explanations

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

A  Rare

B  Almost nonexistent by age 4

C  Exaggerated by their love of storytelling

D  Flexible and appropriate

A  Dynamic transformation

B  Magical thinking

C  Centration 

D  Irreversibility

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

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

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

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

A  Conservation 

B  Dual representation

C  Animistic thinking

D  Egocentrism

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

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

A  Use the cup as a hat

B  Pretend that the cup is a rocket

C  Use the cup as a chair for her doll

D  Pretend to drink from the cup

A  Sensorimotor activity 

B  Imagination 

C  Role playing

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  Underactive children, overactive children

B  Boys, girls

C  Girls, boys

D  Shy children, outgoing children 

A  Mentally retarded 

B  Inattentive and unruly 

C  Extremely tall for her age

D  Strong in spatial relationship skills

A  Estrogen

B   Thyroid-stimulating hormone

C  Growth hormone (GH)

D  Thyroxine

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

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

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

C  Aids in balance and control of body movement 

D  Maintains alertness and consciousness 

A  Support social and emotional development

B  Support motor coordination and thinking

C  Contribute to artistic ability 

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

D  Prenatal events have little to no effect on handedness

A  Drawing

B  Language

C  Map reading

D  Shape recognition 

A  Pets

B  Lead Paint 

C  Regular smokers

D  Multiple caregivers

A  Growth

B  Thinking

C  Difficult 

D  Play