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A Child's World: Infancy through Adolescence, 9/e

Diane E. Papalia, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sally Wendkos Olds
Ruth Duskin Feldman

Cognitive Development in Early Childhood

True/False


1	Symbolic thought depends on sensory cues.
		A)	True
		B)	False


2	It is common for a 6-year-old to believe that growth since infancy has made him or her a different person.
		A)	True
		B)	False


3	Not until age 7 or 8 can children classify items using two criteria.
		A)	True
		B)	False


4	According to Piaget, children at the preoperational stage do not understand that water poured from a pitcher into a glass can be restored to its original state by pouring it back into the pitcher.
		A)	True
		B)	False


5	Egocentrism, for Piaget, means selfishness.
		A)	True
		B)	False


6	Preschool children realize that thought is continuous.
		A)	True
		B)	False


7	Research suggests that 3-year-olds tend to confuse appearance with reality.
		A)	True
		B)	False


8	When a child is on the verge of grasping a new concept, training may accelerate that process.
		A)	True
		B)	False


9	Children ages 4 to 5 can use prepositions.
		A)	True
		B)	False


10	Research has confirmed Piaget's view that most preschool speech is egocentric.
		A)	True
		B)	False


11	The most sociable children tend to use private speech the most.
		A)	True
		B)	False


12	A preschooler with delayed language development is likely to be unpopular.
		A)	True
		B)	False


13	A young child recalls paired items better when they belong to the same category (for example, a car and an airplane) than when one is a part of the other (for example, a wheel and a car).
		A)	True
		B)	False


14	Autobiographical memory typically begins before 3 years of age.
		A)	True
		B)	False


15	In court cases concerning charges of child abuse, preschoolers tend to be less reliable witnesses than older children.
		A)	True
		B)	False


16	The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale and the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence--Revised (WPPSI-R) are group tests often administered in early childhood.
		A)	True
		B)	False


17	The more assistance and approval mothers give 2½-year-olds in solving problems, the better the children do on intelligence tests at age 5.
		A)	True
		B)	False


18	Children whose parents help them with a task they haven't quite mastered tend to become overly dependent on parental support.
		A)	True
		B)	False


19	Project Head Start is a compensatory preschool program for poor minority children.
		A)	True
		B)	False


20	The neediest children in Project Head Start make the greatest short-term cognitive gains.
		A)	True
		B)	False


21	Children who attend academically oriented preschools tend to excel throughout their school careers.
		A)	True
		B)	False


22	The most important behavioral predictor of future school achievement is attentiveness
		A)	True
		B)	False

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