Chapter 7 Quiz

A  Overextension

B  Overregularization

C  Underextension

D  Underregularization

A  Parent involvement

B  Guided participation

C  Decentration

D  Child- chosen activity 

A  Repetition and drill

B  Teacher- planned

C  Formal training in reading and writing 

D  Child- chosen activities 

A  Demonstrate better social skills

B  Are often delayed in social skills 

C  Participate in more teacher-structured activities

D  Have difficulty adjusting to academic tasks once they enter kindergarten 

A  Ordinality 

B  Phonological awareness

C  Cardinality

D  Private speech

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  Using a repetitive communication style 

C  Thinking about thought

D  Using deliberate mental activités that improve recall

A  Metacognitive 

B  Repetitive 

C  Episodic

D  Elaborative 

A  Use of scripts

B  Gross motor development

C  Language development

D  Use of scaffolding 

A  Planning

B  Recognition

C  Recall

D  Episodic

A  Sustained attention

B  Recall memory 

C  Episodic memory

D  Recognition memory

A  Planning

B  Reversibility

C  Centration

D  Recall

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

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

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

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

A  Outdoor

B  Parallel

C  Make-believe

D  Cooperative

A  Dual representation 

B  Scaffolding

C  Proximal teaching

D  Transitive inference

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

B  Realistic props

C  Realistic props

D  To have a firm understanding of conservation

A  egocentric

B  Private

C  Inner

D  Telegraphic 

A  For the pleasure of hearing language 

B  For self-guidance 

C  Because they are egocentric

D  Because they are lonely

A  Language

B  Egocentrism 

C  Self-reflection

D  Sensorimotor activity 

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

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

A  Should respond with “mechanism” explanations

B  Rarely respond informatively, unless the children are extremely persistent 

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

D  Should respond with “prior cause” explanations

A  Flexible and appropriate

B  Almost nonexistent by age 4

C  Exaggerated by their love of storytelling

D  Rare

A  Magical thinking

B  Irreversibility

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

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

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

A  Egocentrism

B  Conservation 

C  Animistic thinking

D  Dual representation

A  Egocentrism

B  Animistic thinking 

C  Dual Representation

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  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  Role playing

B  Sensorimotor activity 

C  Intentional behavior 

D  Imagination 

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

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

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

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

A  Underactive children, overactive children

B  Shy children, outgoing children 

C  Boys, girls

D  Girls, boys

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  Thyroxine

D  Growth hormone (GH)

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  Supports smooth coordination in movements on both sides of the body

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  Aids in balance and control of body movement 

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

D  Maintains alertness and consciousness 

A  Support social and emotional development

B  Support motor coordination and thinking

C  Contribute to spatial skills

D  Contribute to artistic ability 

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  Shape recognition 

C  Language

D  Drawing

A  Lead Paint 

B  Pets

C  Multiple caregivers

D  Regular smokers

A  Thinking

B  Growth

C  Play

D  Difficult