A. Knowledge of language is modeled from caregivers
B. Knowledge of language is innate
C. Knowledge of language is reinforced in school
D. Knowledge of language is reinforced and practiced with peer groups
Related Mcqs:
- Language in the form of phonemes of words is typically apparent in children of which age?
A. Six months
B. One year
C. Three months
D. Two years - An infant acts relatively indifferent to her mother’s presence, does not seem greatly disturbed by her departure, and does not go to her when she returns. This is an example of which type of infant attachment style according to Marry Ainsworth and colleagues?
A. Secure attachment
B. Increase attachment /resistant
C. Insecure attachment/avoidant
D. Preoperational attachment - At which age can children accurately predict the gender of a person steretypically based on the attributes associated with particular activities?
A. One year of age
B. Six years of age
C. Ten years of age
D. Two years of age - Mentalinguistic awareness refers to which ability in children?
A. The ability to think and talk about language and its properties
B. The ability to think and talk about gender and its properties
C. The ability to read mathematical operations
D. The ability to speak multiple languages - According to Piaget, the preoperational stage refers to the development of which cognitive abilities in children?
A. Child begins to speak for the first time
B. Child begins to recognize faces of primary caregivers
C. Child begins to solve problems logically
D. Child begins to represent the world symbolically but remains intutive and egocentric - Which one of the statements below is correct in relation to children’s perceptual and motor development in the pre-school years?
A. By the age of 2, many children have begun to walk unaided manipulate objects independently
B. A 3-years-old is likely to be quite mobile but may find it difficult to run
C. A typical 3-years old has the same agility as a typical 5-years old
D. Skills such as throwing and catching jumping and hopping begin to emerge at around t to 8 years - Which of the following statements is true in language development?
A. In their first few months of life, infants can discriminate among sounds in foreign languages that are not used in their own community
B. In their first few months of life, infants can only discriminate among sounds in the language of their own community
C. Towards the end of our teens, we begin to lose our sensitivity to phonetic contrasts in languages other that one(s) we learned as children
D. Language acquistion is complete by about age 4 - When someone’s biological sex does not match their gender identity, they may be experiencing which phenomenon?
A. Transexual identity
B. Communicative disorder
C. Sexual dysfunction
D. Gender identity disorder - Which of the following statements about Jean Piaget is NOT true?
A. Piaget developed a model of cognitive development which holds that children’s thinking progresses through a series of orderly stages.
B. According to Piaget, the sensorimotor stage extends from approximately 2 to 7 years of age.
C. Piaget regarded the child in the sensorimotor stage as acting to learn about itself and its relations to the environment.
D. Piaget believed that children learn by doing. - Which if any, of these statements about Piaget’s conservation test is accurate?
A. The conservation test can only be conducted with children aged under 5 years.
B. In the water conservation task, the level of liquid is maintained at exactly the same height when it is transferred to a differently shaped beaker
C. Th pre-operational child’s judgement is swayed by one dimension, such as the fact that the contents of one beaker look taller than the other
D. None of the above
