Milestone Quiz 1

Question 1

prenatal period

Answer 1

from conception to birth

Question 2

infancy and toddlerhood

Answer 2

birth to 2 years

Question 3

Early Childhood

Answer 3

2-6 years

Question 4

Middle Childhood

Answer 4

6-12 years old

Question 5

Adolescence

Answer 5

12-19 years old

Question 6

Physical Domain

Answer 6

body size, proportions, appearance, brain and motor development, heath

Question 7

Cognitive Domain

Answer 7

thought processes and intellectual abilities, including attention, memory

Question 8

Social/Emotional Domain

Answer 8

self-knowledge, reasoning, understanding, expression of emotions, temperment, friendships

Question 9

How do we develop the ability to communicate?

Answer 9

cognitive, auditory, language

Question 10

3 Components to Cognitive Development Theory

Answer 10

1. Schemas
2. Adaptation
   3.Stages of Cog. Development

Question 11

Sensorimotor stage

Answer 11

birth-2 years

• infants use their senses and motor abilities to understand the world
• main achievement is object permanence (ability to know object is there even if it is hidden)

Question 12

Preoperational Stage

Answer 12

2-7 years
- children can think about things symbolically, ability to make one thing ( a word or object) stand for something other than itself.

Question 13

Concrete Operational Stage

Answer 13

7-11 years
- marks the beginning of logical thought; children able to work things out internally in their heads

Question 14

Formal Operational Stage

Answer 14

12 and up
- develop the ability to think about abstract concepts and logically test hypotheses

Question 15

Symbolic Play

Answer 15

18 months
- ability of children to use objects that represent other objects, actions, or ideas as play.
- There is a high degree of relationship between symbolic play and language development.

Question 16

What is Language?

Answer 16

A system that relates sounds or gestures to meaning.
Expressed through speech, writing, and gesture

Question 17

5 Distinct Elements to Language

Answer 17

1. Phonology
2. Morphology
3. Syntax
4. Semantics
5. Pragmatics

Question 18

Phonemes

Answer 18

building blocks of language; smallest units of sound that make up a lnaguage

Question 19

T or F: the sound of the human voice is fascinating to infants

Answer 19

True

Question 20

T or F: children around the world do not have the same early development

Answer 20

False; they do have the same early development

Question 21

Prelinguistic Stage

Answer 21

First year of a child’s life is a pre speech stage

Question 22

Early Prelinguistic Stage

Answer 22

Developmental aspects of speech/language include development of gestures, eye contact, cooing and babbling

Question 23

Later Prelinguistic Stage

Answer 23

One word uttterances develop which have meaning in context and by use of non verbal cues

Question 24

Early Word Combinations/ Two Word Utterances

Answer 24

18 months
Usually sentences comprise of a noun or a verb plus modifier (Ex: doggy big or Where ball?)

Question 25

Multiword Combinations/ Sentences

Answer 25

2-2.5 years Child forms sentences with a subject and a predicate and use grammatical morphemes in the form of prefixes or suffixes when changing meanings or tenses (Ex: Doggy is big)

Question 26

More Complex Grammatical Structures

Answer 26

2.5-3 years Use of more intricate and comple x grammatical structures, elements are added (conjunctions), embedded and permuted within sentences. Ex: I Can't Play

Question 27

Adult Like Language

Answer 27

By 5 years old Complex structural distinctions can now be made such as by using ask and tell and changing word order in a sentence accordingly Ex: "Ask her what time it is"

Question 28

When do children start using gestures?

Answer 28

Before their 1st Bday

Question 29

What is speech?

Answer 29

1. articulation: how speech sounds are made 2. Voice: use of vocal folds 3. Fluency: the rhythm of speech

Question 30

Prior to speech production what happens to an infants vocal folds?

Answer 30

They are prepared for speech through crying, sneezing, sighing and burping

Question 31

Speech Production at 2 months

Answer 31

Infants begin making language based sounds that start with cooing. They begin producing vowel like sounds like "oooh" and "ahh"

Question 32

Speech Production at 5-6 months

Answer 32

Infants begin making speech like sounds that have no meaning like cooing turning into babbling

Question 33

Babbling

Answer 33

At 6-7 months This is the extended repetition of single syllables such as mamama or dadada. Babbling incorporates sounds from their native language

Question 34

T or F: Infants first recognize words, then they begin to comprehend words

Answer 34

True

Question 35

When do infants usually say their first word by?

Answer 35

Their 1st Bday

Question 36

How many words at age 2 do most children have in their vocab?

Answer 36

A few hundred words

Question 37

How many words at age 6 do most children have in their vocab?

Answer 37

10,000+

Question 38

What specific intentions are a child's first words used for?

Answer 38

Labeling, answering, repeating, requesting, calling, greeting, practicing, protesting (NO!)

Question 39

How many words does an infants vocab have to reach to have a naming explosion?

Answer 39

about 50

Question 40

-ing endings happen

Answer 40

19-28 months

Question 41

irregular past tense happens

Answer 41

25-46 months

Question 42

plural "s" happens

Answer 42

27-33 months

Question 43

"is" happens

Answer 43

27-39 months

Question 44

"a" and "the" happens

Answer 44

28-46 months