Exam 6: The First Two Years: Cognitive Development

A psychologist who hides a toy under a blanket to see if an infant will try to uncover it wants to see if the child understands _____.

Infants prefer to look at stationary objects over moving objects.

A single-word utterance that expresses a complete thought is called a(n) _____.

The acronym LAD stands for _____, a mental structure proposed by Chomsky as an explanation for infants' ability to learn to speak.

In Piaget's terminology, sensorimotor stage two is described as _____.

According to Skinner, toddlers with smaller vocabularies have parents who do not talk to them very much.

Most developmentalists agree that very young infants can remember if _____.

Implicit memory begins by 3 months; _____ memory takes longer to emerge, because it depends on language.

Reading to infants has no effect on their language learning since they do not understand most words used in children's books.

Habituation research is a technique that Piaget developed for testing his theories.

By 10 months of age, Alan has a vocabulary of a dozen words. B. F. Skinner would have attributed Alan's rapid speech development mainly to _____.

In full view of the baby, Piaget would cover an interesting toy with a cloth to test _____.

Research has found that child-directed speech is _____.

An infant's repetition of syllables such as "ba-ba" is called _____.

According to Chomsky's theory of language acquisition, _____.

Cultural differences in communication appear to influence _____.

When do infants begin learning language?

_____ believed that children learn language by receiving adequate parental attention.

Which research method do toddlers use during stage five of cognitive development?

_____ is referred to as child-directed speech by scientists.