Exam 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy

Chun Lee sticks anything in his mouth that he can get his hands on. He has also started looking in the general direction of sounds that he hears. Chun Lee is exhibiting which of the following?

What is the term used by linguists for grammatical markers?

In which substage of Piaget's sensorimotor cognitive development will babies look for partially hidden objects?

What is the term that describes the organization of experiences into expectancies?

Novelty preference and visual recognition are both part of whose Infant Intelligence test?

Which of the following is included in the Bayley III scales of infant intelligence which was not included in earlier versions?

Discuss how gestural language is both similar and different between hearing and non-hearing infants.

What is the most widely used test that attempts to measure the intelligence of infants?

Define babbling.

Reece said, "Go bye-bye?" His mother replied, "Yes, we are going to go bye-bye." Reece's mother's response is an example of which of the following?

With regard to language development, which statement is correct?

When an infant cries, the caregiver responds by picking up the child, changing a diaper, or feeding. These actions by the caregiver serve as reinforcements, increasing the likelihood that the child will again communicate certain needs by crying. This demonstrates that even an infant learns through which type of conditioning?

At what age does the language explosion occur?

List, in order, the techniques involved in the substages of sensorimotor development between the ages of one and 12 months.

The average two year old has a vocabulary of about how many words?

At what age do children develop object permanence? Give an example of how a child might demonstrate this ability.

Derek saw his mother's hat and exclaimed, "Mommy!" This is an example of which of the following?

Beginning in the ________ substage of Piaget's cognitive development, babies will look for partially hidden objects.

Children combine several gestures in their pretend play at around the same time that they first show two or three-word sentences in their speech. This supports which view of language development?

Which perspective asserts that language development is only a part of the process of cognitive development?