Chapter 7 Quiz

A  Underregularization

B  Overregularization

C  Overextension

D  Underextension

A  Parent involvement

B  Decentration

C  Guided participation

D  Child- chosen activity 

A  Teacher- planned

B  Child- chosen activities 

C  Repetition and drill

D  Formal training in reading and writing 

A  Demonstrate better social skills

B  Have difficulty adjusting to academic tasks once they enter kindergarten 

C  Are often delayed in social skills 

D  Participate in more teacher-structured activities

A  Private speech

B  Ordinality 

C  Cardinality

D  Phonological awareness

A  More; engages in social referencing 

B  More; imitates an adults novel behaviors

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  Episodic

B  Elaborative 

C  Metacognitive 

D  Repetitive 

A  Gross motor development

B  Use of scripts

C  Language development

D  Use of scaffolding 

A  Planning

B  Episodic

C  Recall

D  Recognition

A  Sustained attention

B  Recall memory 

C  Episodic memory

D  Recognition memory

A  Planning

B  Centration

C  Reversibility

D  Recall

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

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

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

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

A  Outdoor

B  Parallel

C  Cooperative

D  Make-believe

A  Transitive inference

B  Proximal teaching

C  Scaffolding

D  Dual representation 

A  Realistic props

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

C  To have a firm understanding of conservation

D  Realistic props

A  Private

B  Inner

C  egocentric

D  Telegraphic 

A  For the pleasure of hearing language 

B  Because they are egocentric

C  Because they are lonely

D  For self-guidance 

A  Language

B  Self-reflection

C  Sensorimotor activity 

D  Egocentrism 

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

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

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

C  Rarely respond informatively, unless the children are extremely persistent 

D  Should respond with “prior cause” explanations

A  Exaggerated by their love of storytelling

B  Almost nonexistent by age 4

C  Flexible and appropriate

D  Rare

A  Dynamic transformation

B  Irreversibility

C  Centration 

D  Magical thinking

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

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

A  Animistic thinking

B  Dual representation

C  Conservation 

D  Egocentrism

A  Animistic thinking 

B  Egocentrism

C  Irreversibility

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 chair for her doll

B  Use the cup as a hat

C  Pretend to drink from the cup

D  Pretend that the cup is a rocket

A  Imagination 

B  Intentional behavior 

C  Sensorimotor activity 

D  Role playing

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

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

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

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

A  Shy children, outgoing children 

B  Girls, boys

C  Boys, girls

D  Underactive children, overactive children

A  Inattentive and unruly 

B  Mentally retarded 

C  Strong in spatial relationship skills

D  Extremely tall for her age

A  Estrogen

B  Thyroxine

C  Growth hormone (GH)

D   Thyroid-stimulating hormone

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

B  Aids in balance and control of body movement

C   Contributes to dramatic gains in motor coordination

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

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  Contribute to artistic ability 

B  Support motor coordination and thinking

C  Contribute to spatial skills

D  Support social and emotional development

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

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

C  Prenatal events have little to no effect on handedness

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

A  Language

B  Map reading

C  Drawing

D  Shape recognition 

A  Pets

B  Regular smokers

C  Multiple caregivers

D  Lead Paint 

A  Difficult 

B  Play

C  Thinking

D  Growth