Exam 14: Cognitive Development

Starting at around eighteen months of age,there is a dramatic increase in the number of words that a child knows called the ____________.

The slower speaking rates of children can lead to __________.

Which of the following structures is well-developed in humans at birth?

What type of memory is more likely to be well-developed at birth?

Episodic memory shows noticeable declines as a person ages.

An infant who exhibits object permanence is able to __________.

According to Piaget,when is a child in the preoperational stage?

A study that compares people in different age groups is called a(n)__________ study.

Older adults do NOT show declines in semantic memory.

Language processing is relatively well-preserved at the __________ level for older adults.

Older adults show marked declines in logical reasoning with advancing age.

For children in the single-word stage of language development,single words __________.

The conjugate reinforcement technique of Rovee-Collier has been used to show that infants have some form of __________ memory.

Older adults appear to spend __________ time gathering information to make decisions.

A very young child calls a tortilla a pancake.What principle does this example illustrate?

Categorical phoneme perception emerges during which stage of language development?

The babbling stage of language development is useful for __________.

During the multiword stage of language development,children's speech becomes __________.

Because of changes in semantic memory over the lifetime,if given a vocabulary test,older adults tend to perform __________ younger adults.

According to Bruner,the stages of childhood development include all of the following EXCEPT __________.