FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CHAPTER

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CHAPTER

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-Guarantee passing score -362 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: approach to the study of cognitive development that analyzes processes involved in perceiving and handling information

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information processing approach Question 2: What ability that infants have are related to cognitive abilities intelligence tests measure?

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ability to process sensory information Question 3: Piaget's term for processes by which an infant learns to reproduce desired occurrences originally discovered by chance.

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Circular reactions

Question 4: What is the typical sequence of milestones in language development?

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Crying, cooing, babbling, gestures, 1st word, 1st sentence, fewer gestures, comprehensions spurt, syntax.

Question 5: Describe Piaget's 5th sensorimotor stage of cognitive development: tertiary circular reactions.

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Curiosity, experimentation, very actions to see results, explore world, trying new activity, use trial and error Question 6: The ability to _ and to _ may be an early evolved mechanism for avoidance of predators.

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Perceive the size and shape of objects, to discern their movements

Question 7: When do infants begin to deliberately imitate sounds?

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About 9 to 10 months old.Question 8: learning based on associating a stimulus that does not ordinarily elicit a response with another stimulus that does elicit the response

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classical conditioning

Question 9: short-term storage of information being actively processed

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working memory Question 10: attentive to symbols and their relationship to the things they represent

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symbol-minded.Question 11: _ is vital to thinking about objects or concepts and their relationships.

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dividing the world into meaningful categories

Question 12: When do children usually speak their 1st sentence?

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Between 18 and 24 months.

Question 13: Summarize the information-processing approach to the study of cognitive development.

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what an infant pays attention to and for how long, measured by things like habituation, visual recognition memory, visual prefence

Question 14: What is another name for implicit memory?

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procedural memory

Question 15: How can infants' and toddlers' intelligence be improved?

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with early interventions Question 16: Behavior that is goal oriented and adaptive to circumstances and conditions of life

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intelligent behavior Question 17: What kind of speech does a baby seem to prefer? Child-directed speech or complex adult speech?

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child directed speech Question 18: Passive or expressive vocabulary: receptive or understood words

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passive vocabulary.Question 19: research method in which dishabituation to a stimulus that conflicts with experience is taken as evidence that an infant recognizes the new stimulus as surprising

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violation-of-expectations

Question 20: How do babies develop language?

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prelinguistic speech, slowly working their way from crying to stringing letters together to saying a word then a sentence then syntax

Question 21: What is intelligence normally understood as?

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Enables people to acquire, remember, use knowledge; understand concepts and relationships; solve everyday problems.Question 22: adult's participation in a child's activity that helps to structure it and bring the child's understanding of it closer to the adult's

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guided participation.

Question 23: What did

• F. Skinner believe about language learning?

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Based on experience, children learn language through operant conditioning, reinforced when object appears, it evolves to adult like speech.Question 24: These are examples of what: child holds empty cup to mouth to show they want something to drink or hold arms up to show they want to be picked up.

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Representational gestures.Question 25: Describe Piaget's 2nd sensorimotor stage of cognitive development: primary circular reactions.

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Repeat pleasurable behavior, activity focuses on infants by a, make 1st acquired adaptation, suck different objects differently, coordinate sensory information and grasp objects Question 26: measures quantitative differences in abilities and intelligence by using tests to indicate or predict skills

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psychometric approach Question 27: Researchers in Israel replicated Karen Wynn's experiment and concluded what?

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children have basic brain circuitry involved in numerical error detection, active by 1 1/2 years old