Exam 1 chapter 5 quiz questions

Question 1

Which term means infant vocalization with well-formed syllables that sounds remarkably like language?

Answer 1

canonical babbling

Question 2

Infants begin cooing at the age of ______.

Answer 2

2–3 months

Question 3

Which term means the repetition of an action and its response?

Answer 3

circular reactions

Question 4

What research technique is used by most core knowledge researchers?

Answer 4

visual preferences

Question 5

The understanding that things continue to exist outside of sensory awareness is called ______.

Answer 5

object permanence

Question 6

A statement that is consistent with the core knowledge perspective is that infants ______.

Answer 6

are born with several innate knowledge systems for early rapid learning

Question 7

A statement that describes language development in infants is that their ______.

Answer 7

receptive language exceeds their productive language

Question 8

Which concept corresponds with goal-directed behavior?

Answer 8

object permanence

Question 9

Which approach to language development accounts for children’s unique utterances and the unusual grammatical mistakes they make in speaking?

Answer 9

nativist theory

Question 10

Which infant will most likely score the highest on intelligence measures in childhood and adolescence?

Answer 10

Kai, who looks away quickly from an unchanging picture