DPSY8119p Quiz 3

_____ are beliefs and images about males and females that may or may not be true

• Social roles

• Social referencing

• Attachment

• Gender stereotypes

A _____ is a set of cultural guidelines as to how a person should behave, particularly with other people

• Social role

• Gender stereotype

• Attachment

• Gender-schema theory

Infants' mastery of language sounds is promoted by ______, in which adults speak slowly and exaggerate changes in pitch and loudness

• Social interaction

• Infant-directed speech

• Intonation

• Overextension

At approximately what age do infants start babbling?

• 1 day old

• 6 months

• 12 months

• They don't babble

Which hemisphere is sensitive to language (production, comprehension)?

• Left-hemisphere

• Right-hemisphere

When children define words more broadly than adults do, this is referred to as?

• Underextension

• Overextension

• Expressive style

• Cooing

Can Stevie pronounce the word Saskatchewan?

• No

• Yes

• Yes, but she didn't want to

True or False, when identifying words infants pay attention to function words more than to content words?

• True

• False

_____ refers to a child's connections between words and referents that are made so quickly that he/she cannot consider all possible meanings of the word.

• Joint attention

• Sentence cues

• Referents

• Fast mapping

Ainsworth's Strange Situation experiment gave rise to the theory that there are 4 primary types of _______ relationships

• Insecure

• Attachment

• Secure

• Disorganised