At four years of age, Deborah's favorite television show was Sesame Street; at seven years, it was ...

At four years of age, Deborah's favorite television show was Sesame Street; at seven years, it was a comedy show also watched by adults. This change in viewing preference is probably related to developmental changes in
 
  a. attention. c. memory.
  b. problem solving. d. comprehension.

Question 2

The type of early language production in which the child uses mostly nominals is called ________ style.
 
  a. referential c. productive
  b. receptive d. expressive

Question 3

Children begin to watch programs aimed at general audiences extensively, rather than just children's programming, when they become about ________ of age.
 
  a. one year c. five years
  b. three years d. ten years

Question 4

The amount of time infants spend in joint attention with their caregivers predicts
 
  a. their early language skills.
  b. their ability to discriminate phonemes from foreign languages.
  c. their acquisition of syntax.
  d. their rate of pragmatic errors.

Question 5

Although the amount of time young children spend watching television varies greatly,
 
  a. they do not watch any television until they are three years old.
  b. their viewing patterns remain stable over the years.
  c. their viewing patterns vary week to week.
  d. they all watch at least nine hours of television per day.

Question 6

Recent studies on how young children learn meanings of words through early parent-child interactions suggest that comprehension will be best if
 
  a. the adult shows emotion while providing the label.
  b. an adult supplies a label after the child looks at an object.
  c. an adult supplies a label before the child looks at an object.
  d. the object that is being labeled is unfamiliar.