preparation material
At what age do rituals and game playing emerge?
a. At birth
b. 3-4 months
c. 6-9 months
d. 12-18 months - ANS ✔✔b. 3-4 months
At about 8 to 9 months, infants develop _________________ in interactions.
a. Reciprocity
b. Stimulus-response sequence
c. Object permanence
d. Intentionality - ANS ✔✔d. Intentionality
The first meaningful word occurs around ________________.
a. 6 months
b. 12 months
c. 18 months
d. 24 months - ANS ✔✔b. 12 months
By ____________________, children produce about 50 single words and begin to combine
words
predictably.
a. 12 months
b. 18 months
,c. 24 months
d. 36 months - ANS ✔✔b. 18 months
By age 2, children have an expressive vocabulary of about
a. 50-100 words
b. 100-150 words
c. 150-300 words
d. 300-500 words - ANS ✔✔c. 150-300 words
Each child has a personal dictionary, or _________________ that reflects his/her environment.
a. Semantic corpus
b. Lexicon
c. Both of the above
d. None of the above - ANS ✔✔b. Lexicon
Preschool-aged children can recount the past and remember short stories because of
a. Improved pragmatics
b. Increased memory
c. Improved caregiver models
d. Increased comprehension - ANS ✔✔b. Increased memory
What is reformulation?
a. Caregivers repeat the child's utterances in mature form
b. Children repeat phrases using the same word in each sentence
c. Children are taught to self-correct their errors
d. None of the above - ANS ✔✔a. Caregivers repeat the child's utterances in mature form
, In preschool-aged children,
a. Comprehension of words is more advanced than expression
b. Expressive vocabularies are larger than receptive vocabularies
c. Comprehension of words is equal to expression
d. None of the above - ANS ✔✔a. Comprehension of words is more advanced than expression
About 90% of adult syntax is acquired by age
a.5
b.8
c.12
d.15 - ANS ✔✔a. 5
Language becomes more complex as it becomes longer, and can be calculated in
a. Mean length of utterance
b. Syntactical complexity units
c. Morphological counts
d. None of the above - ANS ✔✔a. Mean length of utterance
In what order do wh- words develop? - ANS ✔✔What and where are first, followed by who,
which
and whose, and finally when, why and how
______________________ are sayings that do not always mean what they seem to mean, as in
idioms.
a. Figurative language
b. Implicitures