Exam 7: Early Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Development

Rodney is in preschool. His teacher notices that Rodney sometimes appears to be talking to himself. How is the teacher likely to react?

Lisette has just learned the alphabet. She is now able to identify individual letters on flash cards chosen at random and is able to give a word that starts with any given letter. Lisette is now able to:

The developmental psychologist who researched the development of moral reasoning by studying differences in children's reasoning about moral dilemmas is:

Bed wetting is called:

According to your textbook, researchers have recently investigated the link between ____________ and neural connections in the brain.

Miriam is testing a concept that she learned in her child development class. She takes ten pennies to the preschool where she is doing her internship. She shows the children the pennies and asks them to count them. Then she makes two parallel rows of five pennies in each row that are both evenly spaced so that the rows are in alignment. Then, as the children watch, she spreads the bottom row out by increasing the distance between the pennies. She asks the children which row contains more pennies. They all respond that the bottom row has more. This illustrates that the children are unable to solve ___________ problems.

Exposure of young children to chemical toxicants can result in:

Marta watches as her 5-year-old daughter attempts to climb a tree. Marta's mother comments that Marta engaged in the very same behavior at that age. Marta finds this curious as she has no memory of this at all. What can we conclude about Marta?

Lawrence, a graduate student in psychology, is developing a study whereby he will be better able to understand the mental processes that people use to solve problems in everyday, real-life situations and in testing situations. Lawrence subscribes to which view of intelligence?

In general, a child can eat most of the foods in family meals at what age?

According to Piaget, preschool children have an underdeveloped moral sense because they lack the ability to:

The perspective that views intelligence as a(n) ____________ is more interested in how we know rather than what we know.

Compared to his younger sister, Marcus is better able to run and has more coordination between his upper and lower body. He loves to climb on the jungle gym in the playground. How old would you estimate Marcus to be?

The use of psychotropic drugs on children during early childhood:

Which of the following foods are common allergens?

Barbara is a very finicky eater. A possible cause of this could be:

Describe Piaget's preoperational period of development.

Miriam tests a concept with preschoolers. She pours liquid from a long thin glass into a short wide glass. The water that filled the thin glass to the top now only reaches halfway up in the wide glass. When she asks which glass has more water, the children respond that the first glass has more water. The children are only focusing on the level of water in the glass, not the volume of water being poured into two different containers. This is an example of a process called:

The term applied to having access at all times to enough nutritious and safe food to support a healthy active life without resorting to food pantries is:

The theory developed by Vygotsky states that people learn in social settings. Therefore a child can accomplish a difficult task she couldn't accomplish alone with the help of a more skilled partner. This concept is known as: