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Maturation is essential to the development of speech. |
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Newborns can learn by classical conditioning. |
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Studies using operant conditioning have found that 2-month-old infants cannot remember past events. |
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Intelligence tests were originally developed to identify bright students. |
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The Bayley Scales of Infant Development can help diagnose a neurological deficit. |
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IQ tests taken at age 2 reliably predict intelligence test scores later in childhood. |
| | A) | True |
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Infants born with mental disabilities rarely show improvement in tested intelligence. |
| | A) | True |
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In studies based on the HOME scale, the home environment had at least as strong an influence on cognitive development as the mother's IQ. |
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According to research, parents who want to enhance their children's competence should direct their interests into constructive channels. |
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Project CARE and the Abecedarian Project found that home visits are vital to the success of an early intervention program. |
| | A) | True |
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According to Piaget, the sensorimotor stage typically lasts from birth to about 3 years of age. |
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According to Piaget, the first thing infants learn is to suck. |
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Between about 1 to 4 months, according to Piaget, babies begin to repeat pleasurable actions. |
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Research has confirmed Piaget's belief that children younger than about 18 months are not yet capable of forming mental representations. |
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Research has established that newborn babies have the ability to imitate facial expressions. |
| | A) | True |
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Fourteen-month-olds seem to be able to "read" behavioral cues to another person's food preferences. |
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According to information-processing research, some aspects of a child's mental development are fairly continuous from birth. |
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Habituation occurs when a baby responds to a new stimulus. |
| | A) | True |
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Newborns can distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar sounds. |
| | A) | True |
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Research suggests that babies as young as 5 months may have a rudimentary understanding of number. |
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Mothers' responsiveness when their babies are in distress is related to individual differences in later cognitive development. |
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Knowing how to throw a ball is an example of explicit memory. |
| | A) | True |
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According to social-contextual research in Guatemala, India, Turkey, and Salt Lake City, it is not adaptive for adult caregivers to be directly involved in children's play. |
| | A) | True |
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Accidental and deliberate imitation are forms of prelinguistic speech. |
| | A) | True |
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A baby who waves bye-bye is using a symbolic gesture. |
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A baby's first word is typically said between the ages of 10 and 14 months. |
| | A) | True |
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Babies understand many words they cannot yet use. |
| | A) | True |
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As babies attach meaning to sounds, they pay closer attention to fine auditory distinctions. |
| | A) | True |
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When they begin to talk, babies in all cultures use mostly nouns at first. |
| | A) | True |
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Toddlers' speech is a simplified version of adult speech. |
| | A) | True |
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Deaf babies and hearing babies learn language in the same sequence of stages. |
| | A) | True |
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Repeating babies' babbled sounds slows their speech development by reinforcing meaningless utterances. |
| | A) | True |
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Parents can best foster young children's vocabulary development by giving them frequent requests and commands. |
| | A) | True |
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Infants prefer simplified speech. |
| | A) | True |
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Reading aloud to children at an early age can foster the growth of preliteracy skills. |
| | A) | True |
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education