Question 1

When Tucker first started tying his shoe he had to think about it and move slowly. Now that he is older and has practiced tying his shoe many times, he does it without any thought. His memory for this activity has moved from _____ to _____.

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Question 2

New evidence suggests that in addition to categorizing items on the basis of external perceptual features such as shape, color, and parts, infants may also categorize items on the basis of:

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Question 3

A _____ is the basic unit of sound in a language.

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Question 4

Jean Mandler argues that early categorizations are best described as _____ categorization. That is, the categorizations are based on similar features of objects such as size, color, and movement, as well as parts of objects, such as legs for animals.

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Question 5

Kuhl found that baby's brains are most open to learning the consonants in their native language at_____ and vowels in their native language at _____.

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Question 6

Infants are better at recognizing all the phonemes from all languages:

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Question 7

A form of communication that is based on a system of symbols is called:

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Question 8

Kevin loves to say, "Da, da, da, da" over and over again. This is an example of what type of communication?

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Question 9

Identify the correct sequence of vocalization in infants.

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Question 10

_____ are cognitive groupings of similar objects, events, people, or ideas.

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Question 11

Nine-month-old Hector is pointing at his sippy cup. Which aspect of language is Hector utilizing?

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Question 12

According to Zamuner, Fais, and Werker, infants use _____ information, such as the co-occurrence patterns of phonemes and syllables, to begin to segment the continuous stream of speech they encounter.

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Question 13

Someone with a vocabulary of only 200 words can recombine the words in different ways to say thousands of different things. This aspect of language is referred to as:

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Question 14

According to your textbook, infants' information-processing abilities:

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Question 15

Infants begin to use gestures such as showing and pointing at about:

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Question 16

Baby Luis is interacting with grandma and makes gurgling sounds in the back of his throat to express his pleasure. This demonstrates:

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Question 17

One reason older children and adults have difficulty recalling events from their infant and early childhood years is that during these years the _____ of the brain are immature.

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Question 18

Kyoko is 13 months old and can understand about 50 words but can say only about 10 words. This demonstrates how Kyoko's _____ vocabulary is more developed than her _____ vocabulary.

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Question 19

Fransisco has learned to wave bye-bye and does so every chance he gets. Sometimes he starts waving bye-bye before the grown-ups' conversation is finished, but everyone just laughs and waves with him. He is demonstrating that he is learning to use _____ to communicate.

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Question 20

Renee remembers very little about the first three years of her life. Most of what she knows from that time in her life comes from pictures and videos she has seen. Psychologists find this normal and call it:

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Quiz 3: Physical and Cognitive Development in Infancy

When Tucker first started tying his shoe he had to think about it and move slowly. Now that he is older and has practiced tying his shoe many times, he does it without any thought. His memory for this activity has moved from _ to _.