PSY350 ch 5 Quiz
The talents involved in drawing or writing letters are _____ skills.
fine motor
Centering refers to a child's tendency to focus on the MOST striking _____ feature of a substance and _____ its other dimensions.
visual; disregard
Basira runs into her old friend Gina from high school. Gina wants to give Basira her phone number but neither woman has a pen. Basira memorizes the number and calls Gina that evening. This means that Basira transferred the phone number from her _____ to more permanent memory storage.
working memory
_____ is the essential ability that lets humans relate to other people in a give-and-take way.
Theory of mind
Which of the following is NOT a recommendation regarding obesity?
Americans need to put children on strict diets.
Obesity rates in the United States are highest among _____ children.
Latino and African American
In the process of teaching a class, the teacher learns new things. This illustrates_____ thesis, the idea that teaching is _____.
Vygotsky's; bidirectional
_____ develops quickly in children in early childhood because the neurons in the visual and motor cortex are in their pruning phase.
Walking
Humans have _____ compared to other species.
a larger cerebral cortex
Which term refers to young children's belief that everything in nature was created by humans?
artificialism
Which neurotransmitter has been implicated in ADHD?
dopamine
Becky is in kindergarten and is learning how to write her name. She is developing:
fine motor skills.
The brain region involved in higher reasoning is the:
frontal lobe.
The transition from preoperations to concrete operations is _____, and typically occurs between the ages of _____.
gradual; 5 and 7
The talents involved in running, jumping, and climbing are _____ skills.
gross motor
Support for the notion of _____ comes from listening to young children monitor their actions.
inner speech
According to Vygotsky, thinking is a form of:
inner speech.
One problem with Piaget's ideas is that his theory does NOT include _____ playing a role in cognitive development.
instruction
Child art can be wonderful. At age three young children often struggle with drawing circles but by the time they are in third grade they can draw people with both bodies and faces. This is an example of the _____ principle.
mass-to-specific
The mean length of utterance refers to the number of _____ in a sentence.
morphemes
Aliyah thinks that her sister is a princess when she wears a tiara in her hair and a servant when she wears old clothes. Aliyah is in the _____ stage and is probably _____.
preoperations; in preschool
Humans begin to develop an autobiographical memory, which is the sense that they have a personal past history as well as ongoing selves, during:
preschool.
Which environmental intervention is helpful in relieving the symptoms of Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)?
regular recess breaks
Since she does not have a pen, paper, or GPS in her car, Deedra memorizes her friend's phone directions by repeating the turns and street names in her mind over and over. Deedra is using a learning strategy called:
rehearsal.
Children who have experienced abuse often have memory failure when it comes to their autobiographical memories. Freud would call this:
repression.
The name for a system of grammatical rules in language is:
syntax.