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Children who are deaf or who have _____ are remarkably slow to develop theory of mind.

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_____ is a federally funded early-childhood intervention program for low-income children of preschool age.

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When Jennie sees her kindergarten teacher in the grocery store, she is shocked to see her outside of school. Jeannie's surprise is an example of "_____."


A) static reasoning
B) abstract reasoning
C) concrete thinking
D) irreversibility

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In the United States, low-income children are offered a free preschool education through _____.


A) the War on Poverty
B) the Public Broadcasting System
C) the Women, Infants, and Children Program
D) Head Start

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Speech serves a _____ function, as mentors guide mentees in their zone of proximal development, learning numbers, recalling memories, and following routines.


A) preoperational
B) sociobiological
C) bidirectional
D) social mediation

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Elsa is becoming more fluent in English than her native Spanish. She is exhibiting a(n) _____.

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Child-centered programs are often influenced by the theories of _____ and _____.


A) Piaget; Freud
B) Piaget; Vygotsky
C) Vygotsky; Skinner
D) Skinner; Freud

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The Piagetian term for a particular type of centration in which a child thinks about the world only from his or her personal perspective is called "_____."


A) static reasoning
B) egocentrism
C) irreversibility
D) conservatism

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Discuss the concept of "language shift" in bilingualism. What is it, and how do young children exhibit it?

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Language shift refers to the tendency of...

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When children assume that the world is unchanging, they engage in _____.


A) magical thinking
B) static reasoning
C) centration
D) a focus on appearance

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Interactive reading with preschoolers has been found to enhance their reading abilities in elementary school.

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The charting of new vocabulary words by associating them with already known words is called "fast-mapping."

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Logical extension involves _____.


A) linking a newly learned word to other objects in the same category
B) mentally charting new words
C) applying a new concept to a preexisting category
D) equilibration

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Francesca is frustrated trying to learn to tie her shoelaces. According to Vygotsky, should the parents get involved, or should they let her try to master this task on her own? If they decide to get involved, what should her parents do?

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Vygotsky would say that the parents defi...

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A language shift occurs when children become as fluent in their new language as they are in their home language.

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Only after a child has developed theory of mind can he or she _____.


A) offer comfort to a crying playmate
B) tell a lie
C) feel anger
D) take turns sharing

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The four obstacles to logical thinking during the preoperational period include centration, focus on appearance, irreversibility, and _____.

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Jobe told his grandma, "I catched two mouses in a trap." Jobe's speech errors are an example of _____.


A) egocentric speech
B) overregularization
C) literal translation
D) past imperfect tense

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Humans seek reasons, causes, and underlying principles to explain the world around them. The research term for this tendency is _____.


A) deductive reasoning
B) conservation
C) scaffolding
D) theory-theory

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According to theory-theory, children imitate irrelevant adult behaviors because they ____


A) mindlessly copy everything adults do.
B) theorize that the irrelevant behavior must be important.
C) theorize that the adult will reward them for correct imitation.
D) derive pleasure from correctly imitating behaviors of all sorts.

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