Research on spatial cognition

 

Question 1

Researchers interested in infant perception of faces have found that

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infants prefer to look at faces over other complex objects.

faces are uniquely interesting to infants.

“when looking at faces, babies have no preference for type of face.”

babies prefer to look at male faces.

babies prefer their mother’s face.

Question 2

Anita’s mother uses the same ice cream scoop to put ice cream into one large bowl and one small bowl. Anita is upset because she thinks her brother’s small bowl holds more ice cream than her large bowl. Anita has not yet acquired

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conservation.

egocentrism.

reflexes.

assimilation.

accommodation.

Question 3

A correlation cannot be used to determine whether

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children who are friendly are also smart.

honesty in school is related to honesty at home.

intelligence is related to friendliness.

honest children have honest parents.

TV violence causes childhood aggression.

Question 4

Bowerman and other constructivist theorists maintain that the important factor in language development is

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built-in biases.

genetically programmed operating principles.

the constraints on language.

the rate of brain cell development.

the child’s construction of language.

Question 5

Research on spatial cognition indicates that

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girls’ play preferences offer them an advantage in spatial cognition.

video games decrease mental rotation abilities.

play hampers the development of spatial skills.

boys score higher than girls on spatial cognition tasks.

it is not influenced by experience.

Question 6

The sequence of pubertal changes begins about _____________________ for boys than for girls.

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one year earlier.

two years later.

two years earlier.

six months earlier.

three years later.

Question 7

A disorder that causes mental retardation that becomes progressively worse as children get older and is also strongly associated with autism is known as ________________.

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Down syndrome.

Klinefelter’s syndrome.

Fragile-X syndrome.

Turner’s syndrome.

Huntington’s disease.

Question 8

“A set of ideas that explains other people’s ideas, beliefs, desires, and behavior is a theory of”

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mind.

cognition.

personality.

mentality.

beliefs.

Question 9

Children born to poverty-level parents who were adopted into middle-class families typically have IQs that are

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identical to those of their natural parents.

10 to 15 points higher than their adoptive mothers.

10 to 15 points higher than their birth mothers.

identical to those of their adoptive parents.

not related to either set of parents.

Question 10

Which of the following statements describes Lamar’s genotype?

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He has brown hair.

He is short for his age.

He looks like his father.

He has type AB blood.

He is an overachiever.

Question 11

Frank has an IQ of 97. He would be classified as

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learning disabled.

gifted.

mentally retarded.

average.

superior.

Question 12

All of the following are part of Vygotsky’s socio-cultural theory EXCEPT

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zone of proximal development.

operational efficiency.

scaffolding.

naive psychology.

the primitive stage.