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?

<p>Inductive leap (C)</p> 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?

<p>Intuitive sense (B)</p> 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)?

<p>Precise number system (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>They can only habituate to a limited number of objects. (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>The magic number where infants show success is 3. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Habituation and test stimuli should have a 1:2 ratio. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Infants have trouble representing large numerical quantities accurately. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do infants' abilities with large numbers resemble?

<p>Non-human animals' numerical capacities. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Numeric integration capacities (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the term 'Many' refer to?

<p>A large number of items (A)</p> 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?

<p>Their numeric abilities are limited, similar to very young children who have not learned to count (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do 3-year-olds learn about counting?

<p>The stable order in which numbers should occur (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>It is a question that the text aims to explore (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one of the questions it aims to address?

<p>How do we acquire the meaning of basic number systems? (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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