OUP Relationship Between Number Systems Quiz

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What allows the cardinality (order) of numbers, but not their ordinality (relative position to each other)?

Counting system

Precise number system (correct)

Approximate number system

Inductive leap

What allows the ordering of numbers, but not what each number means?

Intuitive sense

Counting system (correct)

Precise number system

Approximate number system

What allows approximations between two number sets, provided the number sets are different enough?

Precise number system

Inductive leap

Counting system

Approximate number system (correct)

What allows the infant to go beyond the counting system, precise and approximate number systems to deliver the semantics for the entire integer system?

Inductive leap Signup and view all the answers

What gives adults an intuitive sense of the variation in magnitude, based on the approximate number system which deals with analogue magnitudes?

Intuitive sense Signup and view all the answers

What do adults have a mapping representation of, which is then also mapped onto the analogue representations (approximate number system)?

Precise number system Signup and view all the answers

What is the main limitation of infants' abilities according to the text?

They can only habituate to a limited number of objects. Signup and view all the answers

What is the key finding regarding infants' number conservation tasks with small numbers?

The magic number where infants show success is 3. Signup and view all the answers

What is a key factor needed for infants to dishabituate during a test according to the text?

Habituation and test stimuli should have a 1:2 ratio. Signup and view all the answers

What does the text suggest about infants' ability to represent large numerical quantities?

Infants have trouble representing large numerical quantities accurately. Signup and view all the answers

What do infants' abilities with large numbers resemble?

Non-human animals' numerical capacities. Signup and view all the answers

'Quantity discrimination in female mosquitofish' is most likely associated with which topic mentioned in the text?

Numeric integration capacities Signup and view all the answers

What does the term 'Many' refer to?

A large number of items Signup and view all the answers

What does the text suggest about the numeric abilities of infants and non-human animals in the absence of symbolic representation?

Their numeric abilities are limited, similar to very young children who have not learned to count Signup and view all the answers

What do 3-year-olds learn about counting?

The stable order in which numbers should occur Signup and view all the answers

What does the text suggest about the acquisition of the meaning of numbers like '4' or '40'?

It is a question that the text aims to explore Signup and view all the answers

What is one of the questions it aims to address?

How do we acquire the meaning of basic number systems? Signup and view all the answers

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