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
Related Mcqs:
- 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 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 about theory of mind is ?
A. Theory of mind refers to the understanding that people have mental states that influence our behaviour
B. Findings from theory of mind studies indicate that pre-schoolers have few problems understanding is an outcome of their mental states.
C. Mental states include thoughts beliefs, feelings, desires
D. If you have a theory of mind. you understand that people act according to what they beelieve to the case - 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 - How does Noam Chomsky explain the rapid and complex acquistion of language in children?
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 - 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 - Which of the following assertions about social development is ?
A. The development of the two aspects of social selectivity-attachment and wariness of strangers-are cosely related in onset and development significance
B. According to Powlby through the course of the first attachment the infant begins to formulate an internal working model of what a relationship involves.
C. Through forming attachment the infant minimizes opportunities for nurturing and protection
D. Many social developmentalists believe that the formation of attachments is a vital aspect of early relations. - According to Jean Piaget, what is the first stage of cognitive development, occurring from birth to two years of age?
A. Sensorimotor stage
B. Infant cognition stage
C. Object permanance
D. Sensory information stage - 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 - Researchers have demonstrated that between the ages of 6 and 10, the meaning of “friendship” progresses in the following way:
A. Mutual support to reciprocity to social ties
B. Mutual liking to trust reciprocity
C. Reciprocity to mutual liking to trust
D. Trust to sharing to mutual liking
