Early childhood: LANGUAGE AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

1. Early childhood is the period from ages ____ to _____ years.

2. The concept that the quantity or amount of something remains the same despite changes in appearance is:
    (a) preoperational
    (b) conservation
    (c) information processing
    (d) one definition of intelligence

3. The most accurate statement regarding physical growth is:
    (a) Slender children tend to grow faster than the average, while broadly built children grow
    more slowly.
    (b) Children grow in an even, sequential pattern.
    (c) About twice as much growth occurs between the ages of 1 and 3 as between the ages of
        3 and 5.
    (d) The only time of fast growth is the teen years.

4. The first web page in this section gives several examples of specific applications of Vygotsky's theory to teaching preschool children. Give two examples of your own:
 
 
 

5. Individual's awareness and understanding of one's mental processes is______; whereas understanding one's own memory processes is ________.
    (a) short-term memory; long-term memory
    (b) metamemory; metacognition
    (c) metacognition; short-term memory
    (d) metacognition; metamemory

MATCH THE FOLLOWING TERMS WITH THEIR DEFINITIONS
 

6. retention of information for no more than thirty seconds	a. sensory information  storage
7.  lack of awareness of viewpoints other than one's own	b. egocentrism
8. term describing operations capable of being turned back to an earlier state	c. short-term memory
	d. reversible

9. What is overregularization?
 
 

10. The system of concepts we use in defining ourselves is best termed
    (a) the self
    (b) expectations
    (c) social categories
    (d) role