Chapter 5 Quiz

A  children’s progress in mastering many sentence constructions is gradual

B  sign language can be learned equally well at any age

C  children in varying cultures reach major language milestones in a different sequence

D  childhood is a sensitive period for language acquisition

A  By age 5 months, babies are more emotionally responsive to adult talk than to IDS.

B  Infants prefer adult talk to infant-directed speech (IDS).

C  Deaf parents use a similar style of communication to IDS when signing to their deaf babies.

D  Parents’ use of IDS results in the child’s extended use of “baby” talk.

A  subtle sets of features.

B  prominent object part.

C  similar overall appearance.

D  common behaviors.

A  is strongest when videos are interactive.

B  increases.

C  is strongest when videos are rich in social cues.

D  declines.

A  invisible displacement.

B  habituation.

C  the violation-of-expectation method.

D  deferred imitation.

A  object permanence in the first few months of life.

B  tertiary circular reactions in the first few months of life.

C  mental representations in babies between 12 and 15 months of age.

D  mental representations in babies between 6 and 12 months of age.

A  the development of autobiographical memory.

B  the development of reflexive schemes.

C  rapid development of the frontal lobes of the cerebral cortex.

D  the onset of telegraphic speech.

A  overemphasize problem-solving skills.

B  poorly predict later intelligence.

C  accurately predict later school achievement.

D  are good predictors of preschool mental test performance.

A  4

B  1

C  3

D  2

A  is a Piagetian concept that provides that infants stumble onto a new experience and then actively try to repeat it.

B  includes core domains of thought, such as physical knowledge, linguistic knowledge, psychological knowledge, and numerical knowledge.

C  helps identify for intervention babies who are likely to have developmental problems.

D  refers to a range of tasks too difficult for the child to do alone but possible with the help of more skilled partners.

A  telegraphic speech; babbling

B  comprehension; production

C  production; comprehension

D  overextension; underextension

A  accommodation.

B  assimilation.

C  organization.

D  adaptation.

A  Before babies say their first words, they make little language progress.

B  Babies everywhere start babbling at about the same age and produce a similar range of early sounds.

C  A deaf infant does not coo or babble.

D  Babies typically begin babbling around 2 months and cooing around 6 months.

A  organization.

B  equilibrium.

C  assimilation.

D  accommodation.

A  receive more verbal stimulation from her parents.

B  be slightly ahead of her agemates in vocabulary growth.

C  wait until she understands a great deal before trying to speak.

D  rely on infant-directed speech.

A  growth of the temporal lobe

B  the advent of a clear self-image

C  exposure to child-directed speech

D  an increase in memory capacity

A  adaptation and organization account for changes in children’s schemes.

B  complex mental activities have their origin in perception, attention, and memory.

C  children master activities through joint activities with more mature members of their society.

D  babies are born with a set of innate knowledge systems.

A  sensorimotor action patterns.

B  awkward and disorganized.

C  deliberate.

D  creative.

A  arrive at solutions suddenly rather than through trial and error.

B  repeat behaviors with variation.

C  repeat chance behaviors largely motivated by basic needs.

D  create mental representations.