FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSYC33A EXAM 2

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSYC33A EXAM 2

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-Guarantee passing score -294 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: The fact that language learning is achieved by typically developing infants across the globe so long as they are exposed to language indicates that language development is

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experience-expectant

Question 2: Universal grammar

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a proposed set of highly abstract, unconscious rules that are common to all languages

Question 3: Computer simulation

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a type of mathematical model that expresses ideas about mental processes in precise ways

Question 4: Violation of expectancy

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a procedure used to study infant cognition in which infants are shown an event that should evoke surprise or interest if it violates something the infant knows or assumes to be true

Question 5: Symbols

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systems for representing our thoughts, feelings, and knowledge and for communicating them to other people

Question 6: Secure attachment

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Infants/ young children have a positive & trusting relationship w/ caregiver In Strange Situation, infant may be upset when caregiver leaves but happy to see them return, recovering quickly from distress Use caregivers as secure base for exploration.

Question 7: Which statement is NOT one of the counting principles?

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objects must be counted from left to right

Question 8: Temporal processing

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Auditory perception is critical for language development

Question 9: Subordinate level

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the most specific level within a category hierarchy, such as "poodle" in the animal/dog/poodle example

Question 10: statistical learning involves

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forming associations between stimuli that occur in a predictable pattern.Question 11: Two-year-old Shana is shown a novel object. The object is 6 inches wide, is made out of blue wire, and is in the shape of an octagon. An adult tells Shana, "This is a glub." Of these objects, which is Shana MOST likely to later believe is a glub?

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a 12-inch octagonal object made out of red felt

Question 12: The period before approximately age 5 is considered to be the _____ period for language development.

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sensitive Question 13: All of the following are true of social-communicative language problems EXCEPT

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they are the result of a limited vocabulary

Question 14: Domain specific

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information about a particular content area

Question 15: Preferential-looking technique

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a method for studying visual attention in infants that involves showing infants two patterns or two objects at a time to see if the infants have a preference for one over the other

Question 16: Benefits of securely attached children

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Better social adjustment and skills Use appropriate emotional expression and communication Do better in school Have fewer behavioral problems

Question 17: Object substitution

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a form of pretense in which an object is used as something other than itself, for example, using a broom to represent a horse Question 18: Using the distributional properties of language is an example of what type of learning?

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statistical learning

Question 19: Infant-directed speech (IDS)

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distinctive mode of speech that adults adopt when talking to babies & very young children Includes warm and affectionate tone, high pitch, extreme intonation, and slower speech accompanied by exaggerated facial expressions Preferred by infants Question 20: Which statement about the results of Janet Werker's research on 6- to 12-month-old infants' ability to distinguish between speech sounds that are not important in their native language is TRUE?

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Infants 6 to 8 months old were able to distinguish between the speech sounds, but 10- to 12-month-olds were unable to make the distinctions.

Question 21: The function of Wernicke's area is to

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map sound to meaning for perception and production

Question 22: Sensation

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the producing of basic information from the external world by the sensory receptors in the sense organs (eyes, ears, skin, etc) and brain

Question 23: Perceptual categorization/organization

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the grouping together of objects that have similar appearances

Question 24: Working Memory

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memory system that involves actively attending to, gathering, maintaining, storing, and processing information

Question 25: Which statement about self-locomotion is NOT true?

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All infants begin self-locomotion with belly crawling.