Chapter 6 Practice Quiz

Avery is one year old and can understand more words than she can use, which means that her _____ is outpacing her _____ development. a. receptive vocabulary; expressive vocabulary b. auditory reception; verbal c. expressive language; referential language d. telegraphic speech; motor

A

Infants often repeat behavior that they have observed. When they repeat these behaviors after a time delay, it is called_____. a. deferred imitation b. object permanence c. A-not-B error d. assimilation

A

To assess infant intellectual development, psychologists use the Bayley Scales of Infant Development (BSID), which consists of _____ scale items, as well as a behavior-rating scale. a. mental and motor b. sensory and neurological c. visual and memory d. verbal and performance

A

Gregory believes that a child's ability to understand and produce language develops from simpler processes that are biological, cognitive, and social in nature. Gregory would subscribe to which theory of language development? a. language acquisition theory b. emergentist theory c. learning theory d. psycholinguistic theory

B

Orlando frequently uses the word "Mama" when he wants his mother to pick him up. This is an example of a(n) _____. a. morpheme b. holophrase c. overextension d. syntax

B

Which statement accurately reflects the correlation between the Bayley scales and later intellectual performance? a. Scores obtained from the Bayley scales during the first year of life correlated highly with scores obtained a year later. b. Bayley items measuring infant motor skills predict subsequent fine motor and visual-spatial skills at six to eight years of age. c. The Bayley scales combined with socioeconomic status were unable to predict cognitive development among low birth weight children. d. Global scores on the Bayley predicted school grades of teenage students.

B

Yasmeen tries several ways of getting an object out of a closed box before she is successful. What is she demonstrating? a. primary circular reactions b. tertiary circular reactions c. secondary circular reactions d. coordination of secondary schemes

B

As Esther plays with blocks alongside her six-month-old infant, she names their colors and demonstrates how to stack them. By providing her infant with a(n) _____, he will one day be able to stack blocks on his own. a. accommodation b. deferred imitation c. zone of proximal development d. set of circular reactions

C

At eight months of age, Christine is making vocalizations that sound like human speech, which are called _____. a. cooing b. gurgling c. babbling d. intonations

C

During the sensorimotor stage, infants' behavior becomes increasingly _____, which reveals an awareness of past events. a. automatic b. reflexive c. inflexible d. goal-directed

D