1. The Developing Person Through the Life Span, Ninth Edition by Kathleen Stassen Berger Clicker Question Presentation Slides Chapter 6
Critical Thinking Questions created by Jason S. Spiegelman, The Community College of Baltimore County

2. Assimilation first occurs in Piaget’s ____ stage of sensorimotor development.
second
third
fifth
Answer B

3. Which of the following has led to the questioning of Piaget’s ideas on infant intellectual development?
Baillargeon’s experiments on object permanence
habituation studies
fMRI research
all of the above
Answer D

4. Madilyn pulled the chair to the counter in order to reach the cookie jar. This “little scientist” behavior is most likely to occur in Piaget’s:
stage 3.
stage 4.
stage 5.
stage 6.
Answer C

5. Several days after witnessing her sister open a kitchen cupboard, 1-year-old Madilyn tries it herself, thus demonstrating the concept of:
modeling.
graspability.
deferred imitation.
launching event.
Answer C

6. The language interaction between a baby and a caring adult is sometimes called:
child-directed speech.
babbling.
fatherese.
baby talk.
Answer A

7. Critical Thinking Questions

8. An infant’s first vocal communication is:
cooing.
babbling.
crying.
first words.
Answer A

9. Henry is 16 months old. He points at the refrigerator and says, “Juice
Henry is 16 months old. He points at the refrigerator and says, “Juice?” What form of speech is he using?
overgeneralization
undergeneralization
holophrase
naming explosion
Answer C

10. Emergentist Coalition’s
You believe that children are prewired to learn any language. Whose language theory influenced your thinking?
Skinner’s
Chomsky’s
Social Pragmatics’
Emergentist Coalition’s
Answer B