Question 1

The young child's tendency to think about the world in terms of one variable at a time,such as the notion that all moving objects are animals,is an example of

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centration.

Question 2

A group of 5- to 6-year-olds are playing the game Red Rover because they prefer formal games.This is a form of

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rule-governed play.

Question 3

The children who live on Yonge Street are playing "store" today.They use empty cans,boxes,and bags as groceries,and they stack the items on shelves formed from cardboard boxes.Susie is the store-owner,Muhammed delivers ice cream,and Shelly brings her baby to the store.What is the most developmentally advanced level of play represented in this scenario?

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sociodramatic play

Question 4

According to Vygotsky's theory of cognitive development,which of the following is not a stage in cognitive development from birth to age 7?

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conservation stage

Question 5

Joey has an iDog that dances to music when it is plugged into a computer.Joey believes the dog is alive because it moves.Joey's thinking demonstrates Piaget's concept of _______,seen in young children.

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animism

Question 6

The term _____________ is used to describe when children categorically link new words to the real objects and events that the words refer to.

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"fast-mapping"

Question 7

A child's development of a theory of mind may be influenced by all of the following EXCEPT

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sensorimotor play.

Question 8

Grasping the false belief principle enables a child to

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understand what influences other people's thinking.

Question 9

According to Vygotsky,a 3-year-old child who uses language as a guide to solving problems,such as saying "Put it there" to himself as he builds a tower of blocks,is using

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egocentric speech.

Question 10

In one of Piaget's classic experiments,a child was shown a three-dimensional scene featuring different sizes and colours of mountains.The child was able choose a drawing that best represented the mountain scene as she saw it,but was unable to choose a drawing that reflected how someone else might see the mountain from a different perspective.The child's inability to take another's perspective indicates

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egocentrism.

Question 11

If a child is using verb forms or verb tenses (such as "eating" or "ate" from the verb "to eat"),then the child is using

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inflections.

Question 12

A ________ is a set of ideas that a child constructs to explain other people's ideas,beliefs,desires,and behaviours.

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theory of mind

Question 13

A child's ability to think about or evaluate the quality of her thinking is

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metacognition.

Question 14

Knowledge about how memory works and the ability to control and reflect on one's own memory function is known as

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metamemory.

Question 15

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the first sentences that usually occur when children are around two years of age?

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They usually include plurals and past tenses.

Question 16

Language skills,such as knowledge of words like "want," "need," "think," or "remember" are related to ____________________ development.

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theory of mind

Question 17

According to Piaget,accomplishment of conservation

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means that a child will not be fooled by an apparent change in volume when water is poured from a short,wide glass into a tall,thin glass.

Question 18

Gabriella believes that when she spreads out her pennies across the table,she actually has more pennies than if they were in one small pile.Gabriella has not achieved

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conservation.

Question 19

According to Case's neo-Piagetian explanation of children's cognitive development,the key limitation in the cognitive ability of a younger child,compared to an older child,is the younger child's

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less operationally efficient short-term storage space for handling cognitive schemes.

Question 20

Which of the following best represents the earliest inflection used among children learning English,according to Roger Brown?

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"Doggie running."

Quiz 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood