In relating to their physical and social worlds, babies exhibit passivity for the first _______ months.
What is the first three to four months.
100
Skeletal age is useful in determining this.
What is the best estimate of a child’s physical maturity
100
Children generate __________ when schemes are consolidated into an improved representational form.
What are central conceptual structures
100
The most influential information-processing theories of language development are derived from research with _______
What is connectionist, or artificial neural network, models.
100
Children that exhibit individualistic traits, such as personal preferences, interests, skills, and opinions are most likely from _____.
What is the United States (or a Eurocentrically oriented environment)
200
Inborn, automatic response to particular forms of stimulation are referred to as these.
What are reflexes
200
A child walking down stairs, alternating thier feet, is probably _____ year(s) old.
What is 4
200
According to Case’s neo-Piagetian theory, if a child has begun to tell coherent stories with a main plot and several subplots, she is most likely this age
What is 9-11
200
Currently, statistical learning theorists are investigating how __________ might combine with other general-cognitive and language-specific processing abilities to explain children’s acquisition of increasingly complex language structures.
What is sensitivity to statistical regularities
200
As school-age children internalize others’ expectations, they form an __________ that they use to evaluate their __________.
What is ideal self and real self
300
This is when the rooting reflex disappears
What is 3 weeks
300
Piaget divided the sensorimotor stage into six substages based on _______.
What is observations of his three children
300
Siegler’s model of strategy applies a(n) __________ perspective to children’s cognition
What is evolutionary
300
This area of the brain is more strongly associated with comprehension of nonverbal than of verbal sound.
What is Wernicke’s area
300
From middle to late adolescence, cognitive changes enable teenagers to _________ .
What is combining their traits into an organized system.
400
Pediatricians test reflexes carefully because weak, absent, overly rigid, or exaggerated reflexes may indicate this
What is brain damage.
400
A child accidentally pushes over a tower of blocks. Each time his sister rebuilds the tower, he again tries to push it over. In Piaget’s theory, this is an example of a __________ circular reaction.
What is secondary
400
A five-year-old can conserve liquid, but not volume. This denotes ______.
What is, the processing demands of a conservation-of-volume task are greater than those of a conservation-of-liquid task.
400
According to the social interactionist perspective, __________, __________, and __________ combine to help children discover the functions and regularities of language.
What are native capacity; a strong desire to understand others and be understood by them; a rich language environment
400
As school-age children judge their own appearance, abilities, and behavior in relation to those of others,
What is "their self-descriptions become more evaluative"
500
Closed eyelids, irregular brething, gentle limb movement, facial grimacing, and occasional rapid eye movements beneath a baby's eyelids during sleep; denote this state of arousal
What is irregular sleep
500
__________ and __________ are the two landmark cognitive changes that take place in sensorimotor Substage 4 of Piaget’s theory.
What are Intentional behavior & object permanence
500
Children often discover faster, more accurate strategies by using more time-consuming techniques. Is denoted by Siegler's model of _________ .
What is strategy choice
500
Social interactionists believe that children’s social competencies and language experiences greatly affect ___________.