Chapter 7 Quiz

A  Overregularization

B  Underregularization

C  Underextension

D  Overextension

A  Guided participation

B  Parent involvement

C  Child- chosen activity 

D  Decentration

A  Teacher- planned

B  Formal training in reading and writing 

C  Child- chosen activities 

D  Repetition and drill

A  Participate in more teacher-structured activities

B  Demonstrate better social skills

C  Have difficulty adjusting to academic tasks once they enter kindergarten 

D  Are often delayed in social skills 

A  Private speech

B  Cardinality

C  Ordinality 

D  Phonological awareness

A  Less; establishes joint attention

B  Less; uses words to echo what others say

C  More; imitates an adults novel behaviors

D  More; engages in social referencing 

A  Using a repetitive communication style 

B  Using deliberate mental activités that improve recall

C  Thinking about thought

D  Using scripts to tell stories 

A  Repetitive 

B  Metacognitive 

C  Episodic

D  Elaborative 

A  Use of scaffolding 

B  Use of scripts

C  Gross motor development

D  Language development

A  Recognition

B  Planning

C  Episodic

D  Recall

A  Episodic memory

B  Recall memory 

C  Recognition memory

D  Sustained attention

A  Recall

B  Centration

C  Planning

D  Reversibility

A  Ignacio’s young children spend most of their time playing with and talking to age mates

B  Ignacio’s children spend their day in contact with adult work and start to assume mature responsibilities in early childhood

C  Ignacio instead focuses on preparing his children for academic success and civic Engagement 

D   Ignacio is too busy working and maintaining his household to interact with his children

A  Cooperative

B  Outdoor

C  Make-believe

D  Parallel

A  Scaffolding

B  Dual representation 

C  Transitive inference

D  Proximal teaching

A  Realistic props

B  Realistic props

C  Step-by-step instructions from an adult or older child

D  To have a firm understanding of conservation

A  Inner

B  Private

C  egocentric

D  Telegraphic 

A  Because they are lonely

B  Because they are egocentric

C  For self-guidance 

D  For the pleasure of hearing language 

A  Self-reflection

B  Egocentrism 

C  Language

D  Sensorimotor activity 

A  Preschoolers rely on faulty logic to solve problems even when given simplified tasks based on familiar experiences

B  When given simplified tasks based on familiar experiences, preschoolers rely on trial and error to solve problems 

C  Piaget was partly right and partly wrong about young children’s cognitive 

D  When given simplified tasks based on familiar experiences, preschoolers rely on trial and error to solve problems 

A  Adjust the complexity of their answers to fit their children’s maturity 

B  Rarely respond informatively, unless the children are extremely persistent 

C  Should respond with “mechanism” explanations

D  Should respond with “prior cause” explanations

A  Exaggerated by their love of storytelling

B  Rare

C  Flexible and appropriate

D  Almost nonexistent by age 4

A  Irreversibility

B  Dynamic transformation

C  Centration 

D  Magical thinking

A  Idea that certain physical characteristics of objects remain the same, even when their outward appearance changes

B  Believe that inanimate objects have lifelike qualities, such as thoughts, wishes, feelings, and intentions 

C  Failure to distinguish others symbolic viewpoints from one’s own 

D  Inability to mentally go through a series of steps and then reverse direction, returning to the starting point

A  Dual representation

B  Animistic thinking

C  Conservation 

D  Egocentrism

A  Egocentrism

B  Dual Representation

C  Irreversibility

D  Animistic thinking 

A  Tim, who spends more of his time in the art corner

B  Rajesh, who spends more of his time with building blocks 

C  Kendra, who spends more of her time with sociodramatic play

D  Sasha, who spends more of her time in the reading corner

A  Use the cup as a chair for her doll

B  Use the cup as a hat

C  Pretend that the cup is a rocket

D  Pretend to drink from the cup

A  Role playing

B  Imagination 

C  Intentional behavior 

D  Sensorimotor activity 

A  Preschoolers exposed to formal lessons tend to be advanced in gross-motor development 

B  In early childhood, girls have a slight edge over boy in skills that emphasize force and power 

C  Parents tend to foster gender stereotyped physical activities in their children 

D  Sex difference in motor skills are largely due to genetically based differences

A  Girls, boys

B  Underactive children, overactive children

C  Boys, girls

D  Shy children, outgoing children 

A  Strong in spatial relationship skills

B  Mentally retarded 

C  Inattentive and unruly 

D  Extremely tall for her age

A  Thyroxine

B  Estrogen

C   Thyroid-stimulating hormone

D  Growth hormone (GH)

A  Aids in balance and control of body movement

B  Supports smooth coordination in movements on both sides of the body

C   Contributes to dramatic gains in motor coordination

D  Plays a vital role in memory and in image of space that helps us find our way

A  Is a large bundle of fibers connecting the two cerebral hemisphere

B  Aids in balance and control of body movement 

C  Maintains alertness and consciousness 

D  Plays a vital role in memory and in image of space that helps us find our way 

A  Support social and emotional development

B  Contribute to spatial skills

C  Contribute to artistic ability 

D  Support motor coordination and thinking

A  Left handed people have a strong tendency to have left handed children

B  Prenatal events have little to no effect on handedness

C  The brains of right-handers then to be less strongly lateralized than those of right-handers

D  For right-handed people language is housed in the left hemisphere

A  Map reading

B  Shape recognition 

C  Language

D  Drawing

A  Multiple caregivers

B  Pets

C  Regular smokers

D  Lead Paint 

A  Play

B  Thinking

C  Growth

D  Difficult