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When children experience cognitive conflict in trying to understand the world,they shift from one stage of thought to the next.The mechanism through which this shift occurs is called _____.

A) equilibration
B) assimilation
C) organization
D) amalgamation

E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

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A loss or impairment of language ability caused by brain injury is called _____.

A) dysphagia
B) aphasia
C) autism
D) mutism

E) None of the above
F) A) and D)

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Identify the memory without conscious recollection.This includes memories of skills and routine procedures (such as crawling)that are performed automatically.

Define schemes.What are the processes of accommodation and assimilation? How are they related to schemes?

Identify the widely used assessment method of infant development that has five scales-cognitive,language,motor,socioemotional,and adaptive.

Kuhel is a behaviorist.In the context of language development,he is most likely to believe that language is:

Alice who is three weeks old is in the _____ substage of Piaget's sensorimotor development; she will latch on to and suck anything that is touched to her lips.

In considering the big issue of whether nature or nurture plays the more important role in infant development,Elizabeth Spelke endorses a _____ approach that states that infants are born with domain-specific innate knowledge systems.

Eight-month-old Andrew suffered brain damage at birth.His identical twin,Alex,had no brain damage.Research on habituation will likely predict that:

A form of communication that is based on a system of symbols is called _____.

The interactionist view of language development emphasizes that:

Baby Luis interacts with his grandma and makes gurgling sounds in the back of his throat to express pleasure.This demonstrates _____.

Identify Jean Piaget's concept that describes the cognitive conflict that occurs when information in the environment is inconsistent with the child's current schemes.This conflict is the motivation to modify schemes or develop new schemes that are more consistent with the outside world.

List in order Jean Piaget's six substages of the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development.

According to Piaget,physical activities such as sucking,grasping,and walking are examples of:

In which sensorimotor substage does an infant develop the ability to use primitive symbols?

How many morphemes does the word "marker" have?

"Want ice cream","Fall down",and "Mommy give cookie" are all examples of:

Kevin loves to say "da,da,da,da" over and over again.What type of communication is Kevin using?

Two-year-old Anita has learned the word "dog" to identify the family pet Rover.Now,Anita says the word "dog" when she sees any animal.Anita has _____ these animals into her existing scheme.