Exam 4: The Emergence of Thought and Language: Cognitive Development in Infancy and Early Childhood.

One way that infants can pick words out of spoken language is the stress, or emphasis, that is placed on certain words.

Which of the following represents the correct order in which speech skills develop in babies?

With regard to the memories of young babies, which of the following is the MOST accurate statement?

When a child's connections between words and referents are made so rapidly that he or she cannot consider all possible meanings of the word, that child is experiencing ____.

Describe the three main forms of learning as they related to the information-processing model of cognitive development.

An extension of intentional behavior, wherein a child will start 'experimenting' with different actions and repeating them when they produce pleasant outcomes, usually appears at approximately

The basic building blocks of spoken language are

Preschool children may have difficulty providing reliable testimony about events, particularly abuse, because children at this age _____.

Piaget identified several shortcomings in the symbolic skills of most preschoolers. They include egocentrism, centration, and a focus on appearance as reality.

If you were to let a preschooler watch you give a Barbie doll a haircut, that child would expect Barbie's hair to start growing back on its own just like their own hair does after a haircut.

Which of the following underlies the process of operant conditioning?

According to Piaget, a preoperational child's view of the world is _______________; that is, they believe that others see the world exactly as they do.

If you (or your partner) were to have a baby tomorrow, you would anticipate with great spirit the progression in that child's language skills. If we were to then fast forward one year into the future, you would look back on the way those language skills had developed. In this essay, note the major linguistic milestones that you would expect to see in the first year of a typical child's life.

In ____ conditioning, a neutral stimulus elicits a response that was originally evoked by a different stimulus.

Research has found that children who are seven to eight months of age will learn a word more rapidly if it is

When a child applies rules to words that are exceptions, the error is referred to as a(n) _______________.

Provide an example of how egocentrism, centration, and appearance as reality might affect the actions or thoughts of a child.

Famed linguist Noam Chomsky has written that human beings are born with the mental structures that allow us to acquire language skills. He called these structures the Language Acquisition Device (LAD). From an information processing model, the LAD would be an example of mental ____.

Piaget's theory has been the foundation of cognitive developmental theories for many years, but it is not without its critics. List at least three of the criticisms that are identified by your textbook.

The _______________ hemisphere of the brain plays a critical role in understanding language.