Chapter 7 Quiz

A  Overregularization

B  Overextension

C  Underextension

D  Underregularization

A  Decentration

B  Child- chosen activity 

C  Guided participation

D  Parent involvement

A  Repetition and drill

B  Formal training in reading and writing 

C  Child- chosen activities 

D  Teacher- planned

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  Phonological awareness

B  Ordinality 

C  Private speech

D  Cardinality

A  More; imitates an adults novel behaviors

B  Less; uses words to echo what others say

C  More; engages in social referencing 

D  Less; establishes joint attention

A  Using scripts to tell stories 

B  Thinking about thought

C  Using deliberate mental activités that improve recall

D  Using a repetitive communication style 

A  Elaborative 

B  Metacognitive 

C  Repetitive 

D  Episodic

A  Gross motor development

B  Language development

C  Use of scaffolding 

D  Use of scripts

A  Recognition

B  Recall

C  Episodic

D  Planning

A  Recall memory 

B  Recognition memory

C  Episodic memory

D  Sustained attention

A  Reversibility

B  Centration

C  Planning

D  Recall

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

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

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

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

A  Cooperative

B  Outdoor

C  Parallel

D  Make-believe

A  Dual representation 

B  Scaffolding

C  Transitive inference

D  Proximal teaching

A  To have a firm understanding of conservation

B  Realistic props

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

D  Realistic props

A  Telegraphic 

B  egocentric

C  Private

D  Inner

A  For self-guidance 

B  Because they are lonely

C  For the pleasure of hearing language 

D  Because they are egocentric

A  Egocentrism 

B  Language

C  Self-reflection

D  Sensorimotor activity 

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

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

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

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  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  Rare

B  Almost nonexistent by age 4

C  Flexible and appropriate

D  Exaggerated by their love of storytelling

A  Irreversibility

B  Centration 

C  Magical thinking

D  Dynamic transformation

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

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

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

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

A  Animistic thinking

B  Dual representation

C  Egocentrism

D  Conservation 

A  Dual Representation

B  Irreversibility

C  Animistic thinking 

D  Egocentrism

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

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

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

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

A  Use the cup as a hat

B  Pretend to drink from the cup

C  Use the cup as a chair for her doll

D  Pretend that the cup is a rocket

A  Sensorimotor activity 

B  Role playing

C  Intentional behavior 

D  Imagination 

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

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

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

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

A  Boys, girls

B  Underactive children, overactive children

C  Shy children, outgoing children 

D  Girls, boys

A  Inattentive and unruly 

B  Extremely tall for her age

C  Mentally retarded 

D  Strong in spatial relationship skills

A  Estrogen

B  Growth hormone (GH)

C  Thyroxine

D   Thyroid-stimulating hormone

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

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

C   Contributes to dramatic gains in motor coordination

D  Aids in balance and control of body movement

A  Aids in balance and control of body movement 

B  Maintains alertness and consciousness 

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

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

A  Support social and emotional development

B  Contribute to spatial skills

C  Support motor coordination and thinking

D  Contribute to artistic ability 

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

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

C  Prenatal events have little to no effect on handedness

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

A  Shape recognition 

B  Language

C  Map reading

D  Drawing

A  Multiple caregivers

B  Pets

C  Lead Paint 

D  Regular smokers

A  Play

B  Growth

C  Difficult 

D  Thinking