Individual Differences in Early Mental Development
Language Development
Bonus Questions
100
This spans the first two years of life. Piaget believed that infants and toddlers "think" with their eyes, ears, hands and other sensorimotor equipment.
A. Organizational Stage
B. Sensorimotor Stage
C. Accommodation Stage
What is Sensorimotor Stage.
100
The diverse cognitive operations and strategies that enable us to achieve our goals in cognitively challenging situations.
A. Operant Conditioning
B. Executive Function
C. Memory
What is Executive Function
100
This indicates the extent to which the raw score (number of items passed) deviates from the typical performance of same-age individuals.
A. Intelligence Quotient
B. Standardization
C. Normal Distribution
What is Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
100
An innate system that contains a universal grammar or set of rules common to all languages. It enables children, no matter which language they hear, to understand and speak in a rule oriented fashion as soon as they pick up enough words.
A. Theory of Language Development
B. Language Acquisition Device (L.A.D.)
C. Milestones
What is Language Acquisition Device (L.A.D.)
100
The largest, most complex brain structure and the last to stop growing. It's regions develop in the general order in which various capacities emerge in the growing child, with the frontal lobes.
A. Neurons
B. Cerebral Cortex
C. Glial Cells
What is the Cerebral Cortex
200
Specific psychological structures-organized ways of making sense of experience.
A. Deferred Imitation
B. Violation of Expectation Method
C. Schemes
What are Schemes
200
Noticing when a stimuli is identical or similar to one previously experienced.
A. Recall
B. Recognition
C. Categorization
What is Recognition
200
A checklist for gathering information about the quality of children's home lives through observation and parental interview.
A. Developmental Quotients
B. Zone of Proximal Development
C. Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME)
What is Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME)
200
Vowel like noises and repeating of consonant-vowel combinations often in long strings, such as "babababa" or "nananana"
A. Baby Talk
B. Cooing and Babbling
C. Nonsense Talk
What is Cooing and Babbling
200
This is used to assess the baby's physical condition at birth.
A. Fetal monitors
B. States of Arousal
C. APGAR Scale
What is APGAR Scale
300
Building schemes through direct interaction with the environment.
A. Adaptation
B. Intention Behavior
C. Displaced Reference
What is Adaptation
300
This is where sights and sounds are represented directly and stored briefly.
A. Working Memory
B. Short-term Memory Store
C. Sensory Register
What is Sensory Register
300
These standards devised by the U.S. National Association for the Education of Young Children, specify program characteristics that serve young children's developmental and individual needs, based on both current research and consensus among experts.
A. Developmentally Appropriate Practice
B. Early Intervention
C. Early Head Start
What is Developmentally Appropriate Practice
300
When a child attends to the same object or event as the caregiver.
A. Joint Attention
B. Cooperation
C. Interactionist Perspective
What is Joint Attention
300
Environmental agents that cause damage during the prenatal period.
A. Chorion
B. Lanugo
C. Teratogens
What are Teratogens
400
The understanding that objects continue to exist when they are out of sight.
A. Problem Solving
B. Displaced Reference
C. Object Permanence
What is Object Permanence
400
These are so well learned that they require no space in working memory and therefore permit us to focus on other information while performing them.
A. Executive Function
B. Core Knowledge Perspective
C. Automatic Processes
What are Automatic Processes
400
Where most scores cluster around the mean, or average, with progressively fewer falling toward the extremes.
A. Normal Distribution
B. Intelligence Tests
C. Categorization
What is Normal Distribution
400
Two word utterances, like a telegram, they focus on high-content words, omitting smaller, less important ones.
A. Referential Style
B. Comprehension
C. Telegraphic Speech
What is Telegraphic Speech
400
Rod like structures within the cell's nucleus that contain our hereditary endowment.
A. Gametes
B. Chromosomes
C. Zygotes
What are chromosomes
500
Children act out everyday and imaginary activities.
A. Make-Believe Play
B. Hands-On Play
C. Imaginary Play
What is Make-Believe Play
500
Our permanent knowledge base.
A. Long-Term Memory
B. Attention
C. Habituation
What is Long-Term Memory
500
Program funded by U.S. Congress in recognition of the power of intervening as early as possible which provided limited funding for intervention services directed at infants and toddlers.
A. NAEYC
B. Early Head Start
C.Department of Health & Human Services
What is Early Head Start
500
The language that children understand.
A. Production
B. Comprehension
C. Language Style
What is Comprehension
500
An area of study devoted to understanding constancy and change from conception through adolescence.
A. Social Learning Theory
B. Child Development
C. Psychosocial Theory