Early childhood : Cognitive Development

Question 1

Research indicates that in terms of the effects of commercials on children

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Children who watch more television are more likely to believe in commercial advertising.

Question 2

Young Children are better at recalling ______ than _____/

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Activities; objects

Question 3

Operations are

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All of these

Question 4

Which of the following is a scaffolding strategy for helping a child understand a story?

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d. All of these

Question 5

What is “The Theory of Mind”?

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b. A commonsense understanding of how the mind works

Question 6

What is centration?

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b. Focusing only on one aspect of a problem

Question 7

Your 3-year-old daughter, Amelie, has an imaginary friend named Brady. What can be concluded about Amelie?

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c. She is not unusual, as up to 65% of preschoolers have imaginary friends

Question 8

Pouring water from a short wide glass into a tall thin glass is a test used to assess children’s

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conservation

Question 9

While playing outside in the snow, a snowflake falls on Timothy’s nose and melts. He exclaims, “The snowflake kissed me!” This is an example of

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Animism

Question 10

Which of the following represents the concept of class inclusion?

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a. Understanding that “animal” includes subclasses such as “dogs” and “cats”

Question 11

According to Piaget, the preoperational stage of cognitive development lasts from about

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b. age 2-7.

Question 12

Understanding mental representations involves comprehending that

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c. appearance and reality do not always match.

Question 13

Which of the following represents a contrast assumption?

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b. Assuming that novel terms must refer to unfamiliar objects

Question 14

What is a retrieval cue?

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c. Any trigger that helps us pull something from memory

Question 15

Engaging in elaborate pretend play is associated with

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c. increased creativity and ability to relate to peers.

Question 16

According to Vygotsky, what is “private speech?”

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c. The ultimate binding of language and thought

Question 17

Believing that the sun is a yellow circle that a person painted on the sky is an example of

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a. artificialism.

Question 18

In transductive reasoning, a child assumes that

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a. separate events have cause-effect relationships.

Question 19

Lydia is told to look at two objects, one is her pet dog and the other is an object unknown to her. When her father says, “Look at the turtle!” Lydia, according to the contrast assumption, would assume that

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c. the turtle is the unfamiliar object.

Question 20

Given the whole-object assumption, a child would assume that “train” refers to the

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d. entire train.