Question 1

Between ages 4 and 8, children's magical beliefs decline as they

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A)   gain familiarity with physical events and principles.
B)   understand that television characters are not real.
C)   begin to ascribe supernatural causes only to events they can explain.
D)   become less likely to confuse fiction with reality.E) A) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 2

What are the benefits and drawbacks of children's computer usage in the preschool and early school years?

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The majority of 2- to 4-year-olds have u...

Question 3

Three-year-old Rachael could not solve a conservation-of-liquid task because she focused on the height of the water. Rachael's thinking is characterized by

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A)   dynamic transformation.
B)   irreversibility.
C)   hierarchical classification.
D)   centration.E) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 4

Adults try to promote __________ when they translate their own insights in ways that are within a child's grasp.

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A)   transitive inference
B)   intersubjectivity
C)   guided participation
D)   scaffoldingE) All of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 5

Young children learning Chinese, Japanese, and Korean acquire __________ more readily than their English-speaking agemates.

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A)   proper nouns
B)   verbs
C)   object nouns
D)   modifiersE) B) and C)
F) B) and D)

Question 6

Which of the following children is most likely to be a more frequent TV viewer?

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A)   Allen, whose parents both work full time
B)   Kayleigh, who is the youngest of 4 children
C)   Joaquin, who is enrolled in child care
D)   Catherine, who is low SESE) All of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 7

What are scripts? How do they contribute to young children's memory development?

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Like adults, young children remember fam...

Question 8

Which of the following statements about follow-up research to preoperational thought is true?

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A)   Piaget underestimated preschoolers' animistic beliefs.
B)   Young children exclusively use egocentric speech until about 3 years of age.
C)   Children as young as 2 years realize that what they see sometimes differs from what another person sees.
D)   Preschoolers think magic accounts for all events, even the ones they can personally explain.E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 9

Young Yucatec Mayan children

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A)   rarely imitate adult work in their make-believe play.
B)   and Western children display impressive similarities in their make-believe play.
C)   decide for themselves how much to sleep and eat.
D)   tend to frequently display attention-getting behaviors.E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 10

Children as young as age 2 display

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A)   a sophisticated understanding of role relationships and story lines.
B)   awareness that make-believe is a representational activity.
C)   the ability to flexibly understand that an object may take on multiple fictional identities.
D)   advanced forms of sociodramatic play without adult prompting.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 11

Mastery of false belief is associated with early __________ ability.

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A)   reading
B)   mathematical
C)   writing
D)   speakingE) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 12

Anneli's 4-year-old daughter manipulates sounds within words and enjoys rhyming games. Anneli's daughter is demonstrating

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A)   phonological awareness.
B)   metacognition.
C)   private speech.
D)   knowledge of cardinality.E) B) and D)
F) All of the above

Question 13

Follow-up research on preoperational thought indicates that preschoolers do not display the illogical characteristics that Piaget saw when the tasks are

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A)   first performed by more expert peers while the preschooler watches.
B)   simplified and made relevant to their everyday lives.
C)   performed by their parents rather than unfamiliar experimenters.
D)   performed with their own toys rather than unfamiliar objects.E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 14

Bethany, age 3, spends, a large amount of time engaged in make-believe play. Her parents are especially concerned because Bethany has a pair of imaginary mice that she talks to and talks about. Bethany's grandmother believes that this is a sign of maladjustment. What can you tell Bethany's parents and grandmother that might ease their minds?

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