Cognitive Development and Language Concepts

Which of the following abilities do children gain during the concrete operational stage?

• Conservation

• Abstract thinking

• Hypothetical reasoning

• Metacognition

Which of the following is an example of 'Reversibility'?

• Melting ice

• Scrambling eggs

• Breaking a glass

• Burning wood

Fill in the blank: As children's experiences grow, they build ______ and are able to organize objects in many different ways.

• Schema

• Language

• Memory

• Emotion

Fill in the blank: The ability to understand and interact effectively with others is known as ______ intelligence.

• A) Intrapersonal

• B) Interpersonal

• C) Spatial

• D) Musical

Working memory can hold only five to seven items at a time. It has a small ______.

• Capacity

• Duration

• Flexibility

• Complexity

The Flynn Effect refers to the observation that intelligence test scores have __ over the past decades.

• Decreased

• Remained the same

• Increased

• Fluctuated

What is the primary purpose of standardizing intelligence tests?

• To make them easier

• To recalibrate them

• To make them harder

• To eliminate them.

Which of the following is NOT a major branch of linguistics?

• A) Phonetics

• B) Syntax

• C) Biology

• D) Semantics

Contextual information helps us understand the _______ of language.

• content

• structure

• meaning

• sound

Which branch of linguistics involves the study of words?

• Morphology

• Phonetics

• Syntax

• Pragmatics