Child Psychology Quiz 7 (20 MCQs)

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1. Middle Childhood (6 through 12 years)Children develop tasks to complete both and school and home
2. The idea that early experiences affect adult life has profound importance for anyone caring for a child
3. In Vygotsky's theory a child benefits from ....., adjusting support as needed to fit the child's performance and gradually withdrawing support as the child imporves at the task.
4. Which mile stone is for four to five year olds, not 3 and 4 years olds.
5. Piaget called the first two years the ..... period proposing that infants think with their senses.
6. In order to better understand objects, Genie would
7. An infant that is calmed quickly and easily on reunion is displaying signs of which type of attachment?
8. An infant's score on such tests of ability is labeled a ..... quotient and used for screening, not for predicting the infant's future.
9. Neurotransmitters are known as
10. Adolescence (13 through 18 years)Preteens and teen begin to understand and experiment with a number of different roles.
11. Children's play that involves assuming adult roles, thus enabling the child to experience different points of view is called .....
12. What was one of the big debates among scientists when it came to Genie?
13. Effective treatment for ADHD is?
14. Developing ..... memory, to mentally represent personally meaningful one-time events is important developing a sense of self.
15. A neonates tendency to turn its head when something touches its cheek is known as
16. Infants form one of 4 kinds of attachments with their caregivers. Which is generally considered to be the desired kind of attachment?
17. Characteristic of adolescent advanced ability is ..... thinking, to evaluate the logic of a verbal statement without it having to refer to the real world
18. The ..... theory of language development suggests it comes from an innate mechanism like the LAD proposed by Chomsky as an inner mechanism that recognizes a universal grammar.
19. Which term describes the process of interpreting new experiences in terms of your existing schemas? (Ex:Golden retrievers AND poodles are both "doggies. ")
20. They are also limited by ..... to focus on one aspect of the problem and reject other important aspects.