Exam 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy

What other activity will typically accompany babbling when a child wants something?

Children learn rules of grammar before they learn the exceptions to them. In other words, the errors they make in language are associated with rules, not random patterns, as behaviorists suggested. This criticism represents the ideas of whom?

What is Piaget's first stage of cognitive development?

When Marta is holding her infant daughter, she speaks to her using a soft sing-song type of speech. This is referred to as ________ by developmentalists.

Kayla was given several different brightly colored balls to play with, one after the other. After about ball number seven, Kayla seemed to lose interest. When she was given a stuffed animal, she showed renewed interest. This renewed interest is due, in part, to which of the following?

If I am speaking to you in Japanese and you are not paying attention, what word might I use to get your attention?

Linguists refer to the average length of a sentence as ________.

According to your text, which of the following statements is correct concerning challenges to Piaget's theories?

What is the youngest age at which infants can remember specific objects?

Brody is entertaining himself and his mother with his repetitious "dadadada, babababa" as if he just likes the sound of his own voice. What is Brody doing?

What are holophrases? Give an example.

Which of the following terms is used to describe a strategy in which researchers move an object in a way that the infant does not expect?

Which of the following is statements is correct?

An interactionist would see which of the following as a shortcoming of the nativists' approach to language development?

"Mommy sick!" is an example of which type of language?

According to B.F. Skinner, how does babbling develop into language?

Permanent changes in behavior that result from experience are examples of

Which of the following statements is true when comparing language development in different cultures?

In some languages, nouns and verbs are stressed sounds and children who speak those languages seem to learn nouns and verbs first. In other languages, prefixes and suffixes are stressed and children learn those sounds first. This idea that children are preprogrammed to focus on "stressed" sounds is a part of the ________ view of language development.

If an infant is babbling and accidentally babbles something that sounds like a real word, the child's parents show interest and encouragement. That encouragement reinforces the child's "accidental word," leading to further attempts to form such words. This example demonstrates which of the following views of language development?