Quiz: Chapter 8/9

Question 1

Six-month-old Seiko is growing up in a home where Japanese is the only language spoken. Is she likely to be able to discriminate speech sounds that are used in English but are not used in Japanese?

Answer 1

She is likely to be able to discriminate them now but will probably lose that ability when she gets older.

Question 2

One way that young infants seem to identify words is by

Answer 2

paying more attention to stressed syllables rather than unstressed syllables.

Question 3

The term semantics refers to

Answer 3

the study of words and their meanings.

Question 4

The rules used to specify how words are combined to form sentences are referred to as

Answer 4

syntax

Question 5

The predictive power of infant intelligence tests is

Answer 5

low because they evaluate different abilities than are evaluated in older children

Question 6

How are socioeconomic status (SES) and IQ related?

Answer 6

Higher SES class children tend to obtain higher IQ scores than lower SES children.

Question 7

Ten-year-old Brent has substantially below average intelligence and problems performing the daily living skills needed in his environment. Brent has characteristics of

Answer 7

intellectual disability.

Question 8

Which child showed overregularization?

Answer 8

Rachel, who said “I goed to the store”

Question 9

Much evidence supports the theory that children’s acquisition of grammar is guided by innate mechanisms. Which of the following does NOT support this theory?

Answer 9

Children sometimes imitate adult speech.

Question 10

Dr. Jones claims that there is a “g”, a general factor for intelligence. In an effort to support his claim, he gave several different tests to many people. Which of the following results would support his claim?

Answer 10

if individual performances were consistent across tests

Question 11

The ability to systematically look at problems and generate different solutions is known as

Answer 11

analytic ability

Question 12

Binet and Simon developed an intelligence test in order to

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identify children who are likely to succeed in school.

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT one of the intelligences proposed by Gardner?

Answer 13

sensory-perceptual intelligence

Question 14

Nick has an IQ of 150. Nick would be considered

Answer 14

gifted

Question 15

Research suggests than compared to nongifted children, gifted children

Answer 15

tend to be more mature.

Question 16

Which of the following is TRUE of the development of babbling?

Answer 16

Intonation is added to later babbling.

Question 17

The production of syllables that contain vowels and consonants is called

Answer 17

babbling

Question 18

A child’s ability to make connections between new words and referents so rapidly that he or she cannot be considering all possible meanings for the new word is referred to as

Answer 18

fast mapping.

Question 19

Holly has normal intelligence, but is having much difficulty learning to read. She does not have any vision or hearing problems that might explain her difficulty. Holly has characteristics of

Answer 19

a learning disability

Question 20

Nicole is being raised in a home where both English and Spanish are spoken. She is likely to

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learn language more quickly at first because she is exposed to more words but have less proficient language skills than monolingual children later in childhood.