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

A child's cognitive growth occurs most rapidly when their understanding of the world is constructed for them by a teacher or parent.

In _______________-directed speech, adults tend to speak very slowly and to exaggerate their changes in pitch and loudness.

When Layla's older sister helps her eat breakfast by cutting her pancake into smaller pieces, Layla gets secretly excited that she now has more pancakes. This demonstrates the preoperational cognitive limitation of _______________.

Flannery is only a few years old, and she likes to do puzzles. As she snaps the pieces together, she can be heard saying things like, "This one goes here," and "No, that doesn't fit!" Flannery's verbalizations are an example of ____ speech.

Which of the following clichés encapsulates one of the three recommendations that your textbook makes for enhancing children's learning?

A memory for some significant life event is called a(n) ____ memory.

Mia likes to kick soccer balls. She has developed a mental structure for kicking that may be applied to different situations. This mental structure for kicking would best be described as

Infant-directed speech typically provides particularly good examples of ____, which may help children to learn to distinguish these sounds more effectively.

Mariposa is lying in her crib, and is making elongated single vowel sounds, like "ahhhhhhh" and "oooooooh." If she has only recently begun to make these sounds, how old would you guess that Mariposa is?