Mod 7- Ch 5

Piaget describes intelligence in infants as _____ or based on direct, physical contact.

• Sensorimotor

• Adaptation

• Object awareness

• Imitative learning

During the sensorimotor stage, Piaget viewed that an infant’s main task is to coordinate their:

• Words and language

• Past and future events

• Sensory impressions and motor activity

• Logic and critical thinki

_____ is the understanding that objects continue to exist when they cannot be seen.

• Object permanence

• Acquired adaptation

• Mental representation

• Object continuity

If you hide a toy in location A and then subsequently in location B, you would be testing:

• Primary circular reactions

• The stage of making interesting events last

• Object permanence

• Reflexes

Devon is 18 months old. His mother puts a bowl of cereal in front of him in his high-chair and then she turns her back to continue tidying the room. When she turns back around, she sees Devon has pushed the bowl off the high-chair. What best explains Devon's behavior?

• Devon is demonstrating early evidence of a deviant personality.

• Devon's actions were driven by experimentation.

• Devon may have a motor problem.

• Stubbornness is part of Devon's personality.

In the first few months of life, the primary means of communication is:

• Babbling and gesturing

• Intentional vocalizations

• Understanding

• Holophrastic speech

The usual order of the development of spoken language in an infant is:

• Cooing, babbling, spoken words and understanding

• Cooing, babbling, understanding and holophrastic speech

• Babbling, cooing, holophrastic speech, and understanding

• Cooing, understanding, babbling, and spoken words

At about 4-6 months, infants begin to make more elaborate vocalizations that include the sounds required for any language. This is called:

• Cooing

• Holophrasing

• Gurgling

• Babbling

Britta has begun making specific words to convey a full thought like “ba” to mean “I want my bottle”. Britta is in the _____ stage of development.

• Cooing

• Holophrastic

• Telegraphic

• Babbling

The first words of a child learning English tend to be _____.

• Nouns

• Verbs

• Pronouns

• Adjectives