Chapter 7 Quiz

A  Overregularization

B  Overextension

C  Underregularization

D  Underextension

A  Guided participation

B  Parent involvement

C  Decentration

D  Child- chosen activity 

A  Teacher- planned

B  Formal training in reading and writing 

C  Child- chosen activities 

D  Repetition and drill

A  Have difficulty adjusting to academic tasks once they enter kindergarten 

B  Are often delayed in social skills 

C  Demonstrate better social skills

D  Participate in more teacher-structured activities

A  Private speech

B  Cardinality

C  Ordinality 

D  Phonological awareness

A  More; imitates an adults novel behaviors

B  More; engages in social referencing 

C  Less; establishes joint attention

D  Less; uses words to echo what others say

A  Using deliberate mental activités that improve recall

B  Using a repetitive communication style 

C  Thinking about thought

D  Using scripts to tell stories 

A  Episodic

B  Repetitive 

C  Elaborative 

D  Metacognitive 

A  Gross motor development

B  Use of scripts

C  Use of scaffolding 

D  Language development

A  Planning

B  Recognition

C  Episodic

D  Recall

A  Sustained attention

B  Episodic memory

C  Recognition memory

D  Recall memory 

A  Centration

B  Reversibility

C  Recall

D  Planning

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  Parallel

B  Cooperative

C  Make-believe

D  Outdoor

A  Scaffolding

B  Proximal teaching

C  Dual representation 

D  Transitive inference

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

B  Realistic props

C  To have a firm understanding of conservation

D  Realistic props

A  Inner

B  Telegraphic 

C  egocentric

D  Private

A  For the pleasure of hearing language 

B  For self-guidance 

C  Because they are lonely

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 “mechanism” explanations

B  Should respond with “prior cause” explanations

C  Rarely respond informatively, unless the children are extremely persistent 

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

A  Flexible and appropriate

B  Exaggerated by their love of storytelling

C  Rare

D  Almost nonexistent by age 4

A  Centration 

B  Irreversibility

C  Magical thinking

D  Dynamic transformation

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

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

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

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

A  Conservation 

B  Animistic thinking

C  Egocentrism

D  Dual representation

A  Irreversibility

B  Animistic thinking 

C  Egocentrism

D  Dual Representation

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

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

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

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

A  Pretend to drink from the cup

B  Use the cup as a chair for her doll

C  Use the cup as a hat

D  Pretend that the cup is a rocket

A  Role playing

B  Sensorimotor activity 

C  Imagination 

D  Intentional behavior 

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

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

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

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

A  Boys, girls

B  Underactive children, overactive children

C  Shy children, outgoing children 

D  Girls, boys

A  Mentally retarded 

B  Strong in spatial relationship skills

C  Extremely tall for her age

D  Inattentive and unruly 

A  Thyroxine

B  Growth hormone (GH)

C   Thyroid-stimulating hormone

D  Estrogen

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  Maintains alertness and consciousness 

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

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

D  Aids in balance and control of body movement 

A  Contribute to spatial skills

B  Support social and emotional development

C  Support motor coordination and thinking

D  Contribute to artistic ability 

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

B  Prenatal events have little to no effect on handedness

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

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

A  Language

B  Drawing

C  Map reading

D  Shape recognition 

A  Pets

B  Multiple caregivers

C  Regular smokers

D  Lead Paint 

A  Growth

B  Difficult 

C  Thinking

D  Play