Chapter 7 Quiz

A  Overextension

B  Underregularization

C  Overregularization

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  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  Phonological awareness

B  Private speech

C  Cardinality

D  Ordinality 

A  More; imitates an adults novel behaviors

B  More; engages in social referencing 

C  Less; uses words to echo what others say

D  Less; establishes joint attention

A  Thinking about thought

B  Using a repetitive communication style 

C  Using scripts to tell stories 

D  Using deliberate mental activités that improve recall

A  Metacognitive 

B  Repetitive 

C  Episodic

D  Elaborative 

A  Gross motor development

B  Use of scaffolding 

C  Use of scripts

D  Language development

A  Planning

B  Episodic

C  Recognition

D  Recall

A  Sustained attention

B  Recall memory 

C  Episodic memory

D  Recognition memory

A  Recall

B  Centration

C  Planning

D  Reversibility

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

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

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

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

A  Parallel

B  Cooperative

C  Outdoor

D  Make-believe

A  Scaffolding

B  Proximal teaching

C  Transitive inference

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  Inner

B  egocentric

C  Private

D  Telegraphic 

A  For self-guidance 

B  Because they are egocentric

C  Because they are lonely

D  For the pleasure of hearing language 

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  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 “mechanism” explanations

B  Should respond with “prior cause” explanations

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

D  Rarely respond informatively, unless the children are extremely persistent 

A  Almost nonexistent by age 4

B  Rare

C  Flexible and appropriate

D  Exaggerated by their love of storytelling

A  Dynamic transformation

B  Magical thinking

C  Irreversibility

D  Centration 

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

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

A  Dual representation

B  Egocentrism

C  Animistic thinking

D  Conservation 

A  Egocentrism

B  Animistic thinking 

C  Dual Representation

D  Irreversibility

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

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

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

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

A  Pretend to drink from the cup

B  Pretend that the cup is a rocket

C  Use the cup as a chair for her doll

D  Use the cup as a hat

A  Imagination 

B  Intentional behavior 

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  Parents tend to foster gender stereotyped physical activities in their children 

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

A  Boys, girls

B  Shy children, outgoing children 

C  Underactive children, overactive children

D  Girls, boys

A  Extremely tall for her age

B  Mentally retarded 

C  Inattentive and unruly 

D  Strong in spatial relationship skills

A   Thyroid-stimulating hormone

B  Growth hormone (GH)

C  Estrogen

D  Thyroxine

A   Contributes to dramatic gains in motor coordination

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

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

D  Aids in balance and control of body movement

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

B  Maintains alertness and consciousness 

C  Aids in balance and control of body movement 

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

A  Support motor coordination and thinking

B  Support social and emotional development

C  Contribute to spatial skills

D  Contribute to artistic ability 

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

B  Prenatal events have little to no effect on handedness

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

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

A  Shape recognition 

B  Language

C  Drawing

D  Map reading

A  Lead Paint 

B  Regular smokers

C  Pets

D  Multiple caregivers

A  Play

B  Thinking

C  Difficult 

D  Growth