PSYC 1720 Chapter 4 Quiz

PSYC 1720 Chapter 4 Quiz | Saint Paul College

Question 1                       

   The preoperational concept of _____ suggests that children in this stage believe that others see the world exactly as they do - that their perspective is the only perspective there is.

                a)            animism 

                b)            scaffolding 

                c)            centration 

                d)            egocentrism

Question 2          

  When Becky’s mother speaks to her, she uses a high-pitched voice, simple words or phrases, and lots of repetition. At four months of age, Becky loves her mother’s use of _____.

                a)            long, grammatically correct sentences 

                b)            infant-directed speech 

                c)            babbling 

                d)            telegraphic speech

Question 3           

    A child’s ability to make connections between new words and referents so rapidly that they cannot be considering all possible meaning for the new word is referred to as _____.

                a)            zone of proximal development 

                b)            underextension 

                c)            overextension 

                d)            fast mapping

Question 4                         

Two-month-old Jana appears to understand that when you push a cup over the edge of a table, the cup will fall to the ground. Such an understanding would provide support for the concept of _____.

                a)            egocentrism 

                b)            animism 

                c)            naive physics 

                d)            naive biology

Question 5                         

Bella was wearing blue tinted sunglasses. When she was given vanilla ice cream, she cried saying, “I don’t want blue ice cream!”  Since Bella believes that what she sees is real, what stage of Piaget’s theory is Bella in?

                a)            sensorimotor 

                b)            preoperational 

                c)            formal operational 

                d)            concrete operational

Question 6                         

Which of the following puts the major milestones of language development in the proper order?

                a)            telegraphic speech, cooing, babbling, first words, complex sentences 

                b)            babbling, cooing, telegraphic speech, first words, complex sentences 

                c)            cooing, babbling, first words, telegraphic speech, complex sentences 

                d)            babbling, cooing, first words, complex sentences, telegraphic speech

Question 7                         

Young babies can understand simple addition and subtraction.                 

a) True                

b) False

Question 8                         

Young Matthew is playing with his mother. She has his favorite stuffed animal, and she suddenly hides it under his blanket. Instead of looking for it under the blanket, Matthew starts to cry, since he thinks his toy is gone. Piaget would say that Matthew has not yet developed _____.

                a)            object permanence 

                b)            appearance as reality 

                c)            centration 

                d)            conservation

Question 9                         

Piaget called a psychological structure that organizes experience

                a)            a scheme 

                b)            accommodation 

                c)            assimilation 

                d)            equilibration

Question 10                       

Barry walks up to his 9-month-old son and says (very slowly and with major fluctuations in his voice’s pitch and loudness), “Ohhhhhhhhh, are you Daddy’s little baaaaaaaby?”  Barry is illustrating

                a)            scaffolding 

                b)            telegraphic speech 

                c)            overextension 

                d)            infant-directed speech

Question 11                       

Mrs. Suttman helps her 2-year-old daughter count blocks and measure teaspoons of cocoa. Vygotsky would say that Mrs. Suttman is providing:

                a)            reaction range 

                b)            conservation skills 

                c)            preoperational intelligence 

                d)            scaffolding

Question 12                       

_____ compares human thinking processes to the processes of a computer by using terms such as “mental hardware” and “mental software.”

                a)            Vygotsky 

                b)            Piaget 

                c)            information-processing theory 

                d)            Erikson

Question 13                       

Which of the following statements about Piaget’s and Vygotsky’s views of cognitive development is TRUE?

                a)            Piaget believed that Vygotsky ignored the role of culture on cognitive development. 

                b)            Piaget viewed children as curious little scientists and Vygotsky viewed children as apprentices. 

                c)            Piaget viewed cognitive development as an apprenticeship driven by collaboration with others. 

                d)            Both Piaget and Vygotsky believed cognitive development was a solo process.

Question 14                       

_____ believed that children are like little scientists in that they create theories about how the world works.

                a)            Vygotsky 

                b)            Piaget 

                c)            information-processing theory 

                d)            Erikson

Question 15                       

Which of the following puts the major milestones of language development in the proper order?

                a)            telegraphic speech, cooing, babbling, first words, complex sentences 

                b)            babbling, cooing, telegraphic speech, first words, complex sentences 

                c)            babbling, cooing, first words, telegraphic speech, complex sentences 

                d)            cooing, babbling, first words, telegraphic speech, complex sentences

Question 16                       

Piaget used the term _____ to describe the process by which new experiences are easily incorporated into existing schemes.

                a)            accommodation 

                b)            scaffolding 

                c)            assimilation 

                d)            equilibration

Question 17                       

Which of the following statements related to infant cognition is FALSE? 

a)            Infants understand many properties of objects and understand the difference between living and nonliving objects. 

b)            Young infants can discriminate speech sounds that do not occur in their native language, but they later lose this ability. 

c)            Young infants can understand simple addition and subtraction. 

d)            Research has found that infants understand very little of the world around them.

Question 18                       

Which of the following is not a criticism of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development?

a)            Piaget’s theory overestimates cognitive competence in infants and young children. 

b)            Piaget’s theory is too vague to test scientifically. 

c)            Children’s performance across several of Piaget’s tasks is less consistent than it should be according to Piaget’s theory. 

d)            Piaget’s theory undervalues the influence of the sociocultural environment on cognitive development.

Question 19                       

Young infants can discriminate speech sounds that do not occur in their native language, but they later lose this ability.                 

a) True                 

b) False

Question 20                       

Piaget’s three-mountains task demonstrates the ____ of children in the  _____ stage.

                a)            object permanence / sensorimotor 

                b)            egocentrism / preoperational 

                c)            conservation / preoperational 

                d)            centration / sensorimotor            

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