Infant Development Concepts Quiz
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What is the term used to describe a phenomenon where individuals have difficulty recognizing faces of people from a different race?

  • Object cohesion
  • Other-race effect (correct)
  • Object consistency
  • Numerosity
  • Which study by Wynn in 1992 provided insights into early number representation abilities in infants?

  • Helper and hinder study
  • Baby math study (correct)
  • Visual cliff study
  • Sticky Mittens study
  • What is the term for the understanding that objects continue to exist even when they are not in view?

  • Number representation
  • Object permanence (correct)
  • Person representation
  • Object consistency
  • Which term represents the process by which a child incorporates new information into existing schemas?

    <p>Assimilation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In Vygotsky's theory, what concept refers to the range of tasks that a child can perform with the help of a more knowledgeable person?

    <p>Zone of proximal development</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the cognitive processes proposed by Piaget that involve adjusting existing schemas or creating new ones?

    <p>Accommodation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the sensitive period for language development?

    <p>From birth to adolescence</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which study provided results on pre-production language abilities such as speech perception?

    <p>Werker, 1989 study</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term used to describe the phenomenon where children apply rules of grammar too broadly?

    <p>Overextension</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which special topic in language development involves the simultaneous use of two languages?

    <p>Bilingualism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the assumption that a word refers to a whole object rather than a part of it?

    <p>Whole-object assumption</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to nativist views of language development, what is the concept that suggests humans are born with an innate capacity for language acquisition?

    <p>Universal grammar</p> Signup and view all the answers

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