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Intellectual Development

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The senses begin functioning after birth

a)

True

b)

False

2.

Sensory and motor experiences aid the brain in wiring the thinking an memory centers.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Perceptual learning during infancy does NOT involve ____

a)

organizing information that comes through the senses

b)

how fast the brain organizes information

c)

the way babies react to different stimuli

d)

giving names to people and objects

4.

Ability to understand that people, objects and places still exist even when they are no longer seen, felt, or heard

a)

Implicit memory

b)

object permanence

c)

parentese

d)

cognition

5.

A baby will have binocular vision even if one or both eyes drift off focus.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

How infants learn is completely different from what infants learn

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Babies show preferences for certain objects, such as ______

a)

moderately complex over simple objects

b)

stable over slow moving objects

c)

solid-colored over patterned objects

d)

2-D over 3-D objects

8.

Brain wiring for language skills occur in a different order for each infant.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

In most environments, babies can match the amount of stimulation to fit their own needs

a)

True

b)

False

10.

In the first stage of intellectual development, Piaget believes that infants learn primarily through their _____

a)

parents

b)

memories

c)

senses and motor skills

d)

own reasoning

11.

Infant speech using the tongue and the front of the mouth to make a consonant-vowel sound, such as ba

a)

coo

b)

parentese

c)

babbling

d)

cognition

12.

Vision achieved when using both eyes in unison, equally, and accurately to fuse in the brain the two images into one image

a)

binocular vision

b)

stimuli

c)

object concept

d)

perceptual learning

13.

Agents such as light, sound, heat, or texture, that affect sensory organs and cause a person to react

a)

concept

b)

coordination

c)

object concept

d)

stimuli

14.

Process of making sense out of sensory stimuli

a)

perceptual learning

b)

passive vocabulary

c)

sensory stimulation

d)

explicit memory

15.

During infancy, concepts change from _____

a)

abstract to concrete

b)

complex to simple

c)

accurate to inaccurate

d)

subclass to subclass

16.

Most first words are words NOT listed in a dictionary, called ______

a)

cooing

b)

gesturing

c)

simple babbling

d)

protowords

17.

Varying levels of instructional support given to help children learn a new concept or skill.

a)

perception

b)

scaffolding

c)

baby agenda

d)

object constancy

18.

Ability to tell how far away something is

a)

object constancy

b)

object identity

c)

perception

d)

depth perception

19.

Setting that offers a person many chances to learn

a)

enriched environment

b)

implicit memory

c)

object permanence

d)

sensorimotor stage

20.

Using the senses to learn about the environment

a)

object concept

b)

passive vocabulary

c)

Sensory stimulation

d)

perceptual learning