Child Development and Early Learning Quiz
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What do studies of early cognitive development suggest about the developing mind?

  • It is not capable of intuitive analysis
  • It becomes competent and active only in later childhood
  • It is astonishingly competent and active from a very early age (correct)
  • It is passive and requires external stimulation to develop

    • How do infants engage in language development according to the text?

  • By being passive listeners to speech
  • By intuitively analyzing statistical regularities in speech sounds (correct)
  • By relying solely on explicit language instruction
  • By imitating adult speech patterns

    • What do infants and toddlers derive to explain the actions of objects and people?

  • Implicit theories (correct)
  • No theories at all
  • Random assumptions
  • Explicit instructions

    • What do the implicit theories formed by infants and toddlers serve as a foundation for?

    <p>Causal learning</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the focus of the section addressing specific subjects in the text?

    <p>Language and mathematics</p> Signup and view all the answers

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