Question 1

What is joint attention? Give an example of how joint attention plays an important role in many aspects of infant development.

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Students' answers may vary. Joint attent...

Question 2

________ attention occurs when individuals focus on the same object or event and are able to track each other's behavior; one individual directs another's attention,and reciprocal interaction is present.

Accepted Answer

A)  Orienting
B)  Joint
C)  Investigative
D)  Covert

Question 3

Lillian gave her class of 12 students a sentence-making exercise in her English class.She provided the students with 7 words and instructed them to create as many sentences as they could with this set of words only.Lillian's exercise tests

Accepted Answer

A)  infinite generativity.
B)  perceptual organization.
C)  emotional intelligence.
D)  postconventional reasoning.

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT a studied information processing domain in the assessment of intelligence?

Accepted Answer

A)  attention
B)  processing speed
C)  object permanence
D)  memory

Question 5

For Piaget,an internal search for equilibrium is MOST likely to result in the child

Accepted Answer

A)  retaining old and dysfunctional schemes permanently.
B)  displaying delays in learning language and social behavior.
C)  failing to develop new schemes after a point.
D)  experiencing renewed motivation to change and adapt.

Question 6

Which of the following refers to the conscious memory of facts and experiences?

Accepted Answer

A)  non-declarative memory
B)  procedural memory
C)  implicit memory
D)  explicit memory

Question 7

Which of the following is a prerequisite condition for joint attention to occur?

Accepted Answer

A)  reciprocal interaction
B)  multiple caregivers
C)  the infant's ability to use abstract thought
D)  the infant's ability to use two-word utterances

Question 8

________ is rephrasing something the child has said by turning it into a question or restating the child's immature utterance in the form of a fully grammatical sentence.

Accepted Answer

A)  Recasting
B)  Relearning
C)  Labeling
D)  Overextending

Question 9

Which of the following situations testifies that the infant has developed a sense of object permanence?

Accepted Answer

A)  The infant assumes that an object that is out of sight does not exist.
B)  The infant shows no reaction when an interesting object is taken away.
C)  The infant searches for an interesting object when it disappears.
D)  The infant tries to grab an interesting object with his whole hand.

Question 10

From about 6 to 12 months of age,the maturation of the ________ make the emergence of explicit memory possible.

Accepted Answer

A)  hippocampus and the surrounding cerebral cortex
B)  olfactory bulb and the ventral areas of the frontal lobe
C)  pons and the surrounding areas of the brainstem
D)  medulla oblongata and the surrounding areas of the brainstem

Question 11

What does the Fagan Test of Infant Intelligence focus on?

Accepted Answer

A)  caregiver interactions with the infant
B)  the infant's ability to process information
C)  social interaction with the infant's siblings
D)  fine and gross motor skills

Question 12

Cognitive flexibility and better inhibitory control are both components of higher level

Accepted Answer

A)  gross motor skills.
B)  fine motor skills.
C)  executive function.
D)  sensory memory.

Question 13

Which of the following statements reflects the views of Noam Chomsky on language?

Accepted Answer

A)  The LAD is a physical part of the brain rather than a theoretical construct.
B)  Children do not have an innate ability to detect the sounds of language.
C)  Children are born with an innate device to learn language.
D)  Language acquisition in humans is an environmentally conditioned process that starts at birth.

Question 14

________ is a strategy used to increase children's acquisition of language by adding to a child's incomplete sentence or phrasing.

Accepted Answer

A)  Screening
B)  Labeling
C)  Expanding
D)  Identifying

Question 15

Children of parents who are professionals have ________ vocabularies at age 36 months compared to children whose parents are on welfare.

Accepted Answer

A)  larger
B)  smaller
C)  equal
D)  None of these answers is correct.

Question 16

According to a recent study,problems in joint attention as early as eight months were linked with the diagnosis of what condition by age 7?

Accepted Answer

A)  ADHD
B)  anxiety disorder
C)  autism
D)  schizophrenia

Question 17

Which of the following is NOT one of the best predictors of a child's vocabulary growth?

Accepted Answer

A)  amount of maternal talk
B)  mother's literacy skills
C)  mother's use of diverse vocabulary
D)  maternal language skills

Question 18

The strings of consonant-vowel combinations produced by babies in the middle of the first year is called

Accepted Answer

A)  crying.
B)  labeling.
C)  cooing.
D)  babbling.

Question 19

What is labeling?

Accepted Answer

Labeling is identifying the names of obj...

Question 20

Wayne's father hung a bright yellow tennis ball over Wayne's crib and dangled it whenever he stood by the crib.Within a day or two of doing this,Wayne was seen kicking his legs in the air to reach the ball successfully.Wayne's action is an example of the ________ substage given by Piaget.

Accepted Answer

A)  simple reflexes
B)  tertiary circular reactions,novelty,and curiosity
C)  coordination of secondary circular reactions
D)  internalization of schemes

Exam 6: Cognitive Development in Infancy

What does the Fagan Test of Infant Intelligence focus on?

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Cognitive flexibility and better inhibitory control are both components of higher level

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According to a recent study,problems in joint attention as early as eight months were linked with the diagnosis of what condition by age 7?

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Which of the following situations testifies that the infant has developed a sense of object permanence?

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________ is rephrasing something the child has said by turning it into a question or restating the child's immature utterance in the form of a fully grammatical sentence.

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Which of the following refers to the conscious memory of facts and experiences?

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________ attention occurs when individuals focus on the same object or event and are able to track each other's behavior; one individual directs another's attention,and reciprocal interaction is present.

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________ is a strategy used to increase children's acquisition of language by adding to a child's incomplete sentence or phrasing.

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Wayne's father hung a bright yellow tennis ball over Wayne's crib and dangled it whenever he stood by the crib.Within a day or two of doing this,Wayne was seen kicking his legs in the air to reach the ball successfully.Wayne's action is an example of the ________ substage given by Piaget.

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Which of the following statements reflects the views of Noam Chomsky on language?

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Lillian gave her class of 12 students a sentence-making exercise in her English class.She provided the students with 7 words and instructed them to create as many sentences as they could with this set of words only.Lillian's exercise tests

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From about 6 to 12 months of age,the maturation of the ________ make the emergence of explicit memory possible.

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For Piaget,an internal search for equilibrium is MOST likely to result in the child

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What is joint attention? Give an example of how joint attention plays an important role in many aspects of infant development.

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Which of the following is NOT one of the best predictors of a child's vocabulary growth?

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What is labeling?

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Which of the following is NOT a studied information processing domain in the assessment of intelligence?

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Children of parents who are professionals have ________ vocabularies at age 36 months compared to children whose parents are on welfare.

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The strings of consonant-vowel combinations produced by babies in the middle of the first year is called

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