Which of the following is NOT one of the three key domains that have been studied extensively by the information processing theorists?
a. verbal skills
b. memory
c. performance skills
d. quantitative skills
Ques. 2The process by which we take in new information and make sense of the world.
a. verbal skills
b. combination
c. performance skills
d. encoding
Ques. 3Seventeen-year-old James wants to explore different lifestyles and careers before he settles on who he is and where he wants to go. It is likely that James is in the ___________ of identity formation.
a. identity achievement phase
b. identity diffusion phase
c. identity moratorium phase
d. identity foreclosure phase
Ques. 4The process of human development involving the acquisition of the set of attributes that makes them unique is termed:
a. moral development
b. social development
c. gender development
d. personal development
Ques. 5Gracie never had children and she feels as though she has not made a meaningful contribution to the world through her career. According to Erikson, Gracie is experiencing the effects of stagnation. Into what age group does Gracie probably fit?
a. adolescence
b. early adulthood
c. middle adulthood
d. old age
Ques. 6Which of the following stage theorists/theories assume children will reach cognitive milestones when they become cognitively mature enough to do so.
a. information processing
b. Vygotsky
c. Piaget
d. sociocultural
Ques. 7A memory strategy in which a person, either mentally or aloud, recites information over and over again in order to remember it.
a. recitation
b. rehearsal
c. internalization
d. canalization
Ques. 8The earliest postnatal step in language acquisition.
a. babbling
b. cooing
c. telegraphic speech
d. underextension
Ques. 9In the pet store, Jamie said to her mother, Those mouses are so cute This is an example of which of the following?
a. underextension error
b. telegraphic speech
c. overextension error
d. overregularization
Ques. 10Amy calls all four-legged animals dog. This is an example of:
a. underextension error
b. overregularization
c. overextension error
d. telegraphic speech
Ques. 11The innate predisposition or ability to acquire language expertise.
a. domain-specific device
b. language acquisition device
c. domain-general device
d. language assessment device
Ques. 12Juanita just moved to the United States from Mexico. She is now attending school where the teachers are using her first language, Spanish, to build her English vocabulary.
a. multiplied bilingualism
b. subtractive bilingualism
c. divided bilingualism
d. additive bilingualism
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