Chapter 7 Quiz

A  Underregularization

B  Underextension

C  Overextension

D  Overregularization

A  Guided participation

B  Parent involvement

C  Child- chosen activity 

D  Decentration

A  Repetition and drill

B  Formal training in reading and writing 

C  Child- chosen activities 

D  Teacher- planned

A  Participate in more teacher-structured activities

B  Are often delayed in social skills 

C  Demonstrate better social skills

D  Have difficulty adjusting to academic tasks once they enter kindergarten 

A  Ordinality 

B  Cardinality

C  Private speech

D  Phonological awareness

A  More; engages in social referencing 

B  Less; establishes joint attention

C  More; imitates an adults novel behaviors

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  Metacognitive 

B  Elaborative 

C  Episodic

D  Repetitive 

A  Use of scripts

B  Language development

C  Gross motor development

D  Use of scaffolding 

A  Planning

B  Recognition

C  Recall

D  Episodic

A  Sustained attention

B  Episodic memory

C  Recognition memory

D  Recall memory 

A  Recall

B  Centration

C  Planning

D  Reversibility

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

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

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

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

A  Parallel

B  Cooperative

C  Outdoor

D  Make-believe

A  Transitive inference

B  Scaffolding

C  Dual representation 

D  Proximal teaching

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  Telegraphic 

B  egocentric

C  Private

D  Inner

A  Because they are egocentric

B  For the pleasure of hearing language 

C  Because they are lonely

D  For self-guidance 

A  Egocentrism 

B  Sensorimotor activity 

C  Language

D  Self-reflection

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

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

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

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

A  Should respond with “mechanism” explanations

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

C  Should respond with “prior cause” explanations

D  Rarely respond informatively, unless the children are extremely persistent 

A  Flexible and appropriate

B  Rare

C  Exaggerated by their love of storytelling

D  Almost nonexistent by age 4

A  Dynamic transformation

B  Magical thinking

C  Irreversibility

D  Centration 

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

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

A  Dual representation

B  Egocentrism

C  Animistic thinking

D  Conservation 

A  Dual Representation

B  Egocentrism

C  Irreversibility

D  Animistic thinking 

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  Kendra, who spends more of her time with sociodramatic play

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

A  Use the cup as a hat

B  Use the cup as a chair for her doll

C  Pretend that the cup is a rocket

D  Pretend to drink from the cup

A  Sensorimotor activity 

B  Intentional behavior 

C  Role playing

D  Imagination 

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

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

A  Girls, boys

B  Shy children, outgoing children 

C  Boys, girls

D  Underactive children, overactive children

A  Strong in spatial relationship skills

B  Mentally retarded 

C  Inattentive and unruly 

D  Extremely tall for her age

A  Growth hormone (GH)

B  Estrogen

C   Thyroid-stimulating hormone

D  Thyroxine

A   Contributes to dramatic gains in motor coordination

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

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  Aids in balance and control of body movement 

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

C  Maintains alertness and consciousness 

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 artistic ability 

C  Support motor coordination and thinking

D  Contribute to spatial skills

A  Prenatal events have little to no effect on handedness

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

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

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

A  Shape recognition 

B  Language

C  Map reading

D  Drawing

A  Pets

B  Multiple caregivers

C  Lead Paint 

D  Regular smokers

A  Difficult 

B  Thinking

C  Growth

D  Play