Key People Quiz

Matching Exercises


1				Charles Nelson


2				Esther Thelen


3				Robert Fantz


4				Eleanor Gibson and James J. Gibson


5				Marshall Haith


6				Richard Walk


7				Elizabeth Spelke


8				Fred Genesee


9				Michelle Patterson and Janet Werker


10				Elaine Wang


11				Arnold Gesell


12				Carol Rovee-Collier


13				Nancy Bayley


14				Andrew Meltzoff


15				Roger Brown


16				Jean Piaget


17				Jean Mandler


18				Noam Chomsky


19				Eleanor Gibson


20				Elizabeth Spelke


21				Betty Hart and Todd Risley


22				Renee Baillargeon


23				Esther Thelen

Answer choices for questions 1 through 23

A)	Infants develop expectations about future events in their world by the time they are three months of age.
B)	Explicit memory is not evident until the second half of the first year of life.
C)	Infants as young as four months of age have intermodal perception.
D)	The dynamic systems theory seeks to explain how motor behaviours are assembled for perceiving and acting.
E)	Infants' perceptual abilities are highly developed very early in development.
F)	Eight-month-old infants are able to match gender, sound, and faces correctly in experiments of auditory and visual intermodal perception.
G)	He measured babies' brain activity to determine the role it plays in memory development.
H)	He used looking chambers to determine infants' visual preferences.
I)	Infants have biological core knowledge of the perceptual world.
J)	Children learn to be bilingual with the same relative ease as they learn to be monolingual.
K)	Two- to three-month-old infants are capable of detailed memory.
L)	She devised the most commonly used infant intelligence test.
M)	He developed a clinical measure to assess potential abnormality in infants.
N)	He studied infants' imitation and deferred imitation.
O)	They used the visual cliff to study infant depth perception.
P)	She is a proponent of the developmental biodynamics view of infant motor development.
Q)	They observed the language environments and language development of children from middle-income professional backgrounds and welfare backgrounds.
R)	Giving new mothers formula samples upon discharge from hospital decreases the likelihood that these mothers will breast-feed their children.
S)	Infants as young as four months expect objects to be substantial and permanent.
T)	There is no evidence to support the claim that reinforcement is responsible for language rule systems.
U)	He contributed to cognitive theory by observing the development of his three children.
V)	Humans are biologically prewired to learn language.
W)	He investigated how early infants can perceive depth.

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