Caron is riding her stick horse through the house and racing Devin. Her dad can't see Devin, but watches Caron race across the room and instruct Devin to hide. What stage of play is Caron demonstrating?
a. constructive
b. symbolic
c. rough and tumble
d. real games
Ques. 2At age 7, Raphael is able to communicate in two languages, as well as maintain his sense of identity as he moves between two cultures on a daily basis. We would say Raphael is:
a. an example of additive bilingualism.
b. bilingual and bicultural.
c. monolingual and bicultural.
d. an example of subtractive bilingualism.
Ques. 3Mr. Robles, who teaches kindergarten, expects his students to:
a. have an expressive vocabulary of at least 10,000 words.
b. have a receptive vocabulary of 30,000 words.
c. create 10-word sentences and be able to use all types of sentences.
d. have knowledge of rules of grammar and rules of conversation.
Ques. 4For more than 30 years, the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) has focused on:
a. assessing parenting styles and family dynamics.
b. predicting children's risk for school failure and dropout.
c. assessing children's cognitive and social emotional development.
d. assessing children's readiness for preschool and kindergarten.
Ques. 5Melissa's son has been diagnosed with autism. Possible cognitive causes include an underdeveloped theory of mind. What processing difficulties is he most likely to experience?
a. memorization of words and steps for problem solving.
b. automaticity.
c. production deficiency.
d. joint attention.
Ques. 6Jamal writes his phone number on the palm of his hand so he will not forget it when he gets to school and sees his friends. Unfortunately, he forgets to look at his hand and his memory strategy fails. Although Jamal has developed a good memory strategy, his failure to produce it when it would be useful demonstrates:
a. memory processing error.
b. automaticity.
c. executive function.
d. production deficiency.
Ques. 7Darias has trouble focusing his attention on basic insturctions in his kindergarten class. He struggles to organize tasks at school and inhibit his impulses to talk out of turn. What aspect of information processing is underdeveloped?
a. executive function.
b. long-term memory.
c. abstraction.
d. overlapping wave of adaptive strategy.
Ques. 8Franklin, who is two years old, repeatedly laughs as he pretends to throw the tennis ball at his older brother. Franklin is demonstrating thought at which Piagetian stage of cognitive development?
a. operational
b. sensorimotor
c. preoperational
d. symbolic function
Ques. 9When someone tries to sit next to her at her birthday party, Samantha politely says This seat is taked. Her grammar reveals that she is:
a. fast-mapping.
b. overregularizing the rules of language.
c. experiencing syntax confusion.
d. accommodating her decoding skills.
Ques. 10Torrence counted the number of stars he could find in the displays in the museum. The last number he said was number 17. He concluded that there are 17 stars in the displays. What counting principle does this illustrate?
a. cardinal principle
b. order-irrelevance principle
c. one-to-one principle
d. stable order principle
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