ABSC 160 Unit 3 Practice Exam-Questions with Correct
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The area that primarily deals with written and spoken language comprehension is -
✔✔Wernicke's area
This approach to teaching reading focuses on teaching small units of separate speech
sounds called phonemes and how, when combined together, form words. - ✔✔Phonics
approach
This learning disability is characterized by the difficulty in separating sounds in both spoken
and written words, making it difficult to spell and read text. - ✔✔Dyslexia
Which scientist argued that language is learned through operant conditioning and
reinforcement? - ✔✔B.F. Skinner
A morpheme is - ✔✔the smallest unit of meaning in a language.
If you were interested in the grammar of language, you would study - ✔✔Syntax
According to content presented in lecure modules, what is generalized imitation of
language? - ✔✔When a child imitates behavior that have not yet led to reinforcement.
One-syllable sounds that are combined repetitively around the age of 4 to 6 months: -
✔✔Babbling
According to lecture, the five-step process for language development explains the process
by which a response becomes automatically _____________, and thus continues to be
emitted more frequently in the future. - ✔✔reinforced
What is temperament? - ✔✔The general emotional style an individual displays in
responding to events.
, Three-year-old Chandra was going for a walk with her mom outside when she fell and
scrapped her knee. She immediately looks up to her mom. Because her mom runs over with
fear on her face, Chandra begins crying. This is an example of: - ✔✔social referencing
If your goal was to help your child regulate his own emotions, you would - ✔✔attend to the
infant's signals before the infant gets frantic in order to get a response from you.
Imagine that you told four-year-olds that they could eat an M&M right away, but if they
could wait they would get five M&Ms. You would be testing the - ✔✔children's ability to
control of their behavior
A benefit to having a baby that feels safe and secure in the presence of the caregiver to
whom she is attached is that the baby - ✔✔uses the caregiver as a secure base and begins
exploring the environment.
The pattern of attachment called ambivalent/resistant attachment has been associated with
a caregiver who is - ✔✔positive in their interaction but unresponsive to the signals of the
infant. (?)
The roles and stereotypes that our society connects with being a boy or girl is referring to: -
✔✔gender
Which of the following best describes the Bobo Experiment? - ✔✔Two groups of children
either witnessed or did not witness an adult displaying aggression toward an inflatable doll
and subsequent levels of aggression in the children were measured.
According to a behavior-analytic approach, morality is: - ✔✔a system of rule-governed
behavior and individuals in the culture reinforce behavior that follows the rules.
According to Bowlby's stages, preattachment is the stage in which an infant: - ✔✔has
sensory preferences that brings him into close connection with parents
According to social cognitive learning theory, children learn right from wrong - ✔✔by
imitating others engaged in moral behaviors.
Answers/ Expert Verified
The area that primarily deals with written and spoken language comprehension is -
✔✔Wernicke's area
This approach to teaching reading focuses on teaching small units of separate speech
sounds called phonemes and how, when combined together, form words. - ✔✔Phonics
approach
This learning disability is characterized by the difficulty in separating sounds in both spoken
and written words, making it difficult to spell and read text. - ✔✔Dyslexia
Which scientist argued that language is learned through operant conditioning and
reinforcement? - ✔✔B.F. Skinner
A morpheme is - ✔✔the smallest unit of meaning in a language.
If you were interested in the grammar of language, you would study - ✔✔Syntax
According to content presented in lecure modules, what is generalized imitation of
language? - ✔✔When a child imitates behavior that have not yet led to reinforcement.
One-syllable sounds that are combined repetitively around the age of 4 to 6 months: -
✔✔Babbling
According to lecture, the five-step process for language development explains the process
by which a response becomes automatically _____________, and thus continues to be
emitted more frequently in the future. - ✔✔reinforced
What is temperament? - ✔✔The general emotional style an individual displays in
responding to events.
, Three-year-old Chandra was going for a walk with her mom outside when she fell and
scrapped her knee. She immediately looks up to her mom. Because her mom runs over with
fear on her face, Chandra begins crying. This is an example of: - ✔✔social referencing
If your goal was to help your child regulate his own emotions, you would - ✔✔attend to the
infant's signals before the infant gets frantic in order to get a response from you.
Imagine that you told four-year-olds that they could eat an M&M right away, but if they
could wait they would get five M&Ms. You would be testing the - ✔✔children's ability to
control of their behavior
A benefit to having a baby that feels safe and secure in the presence of the caregiver to
whom she is attached is that the baby - ✔✔uses the caregiver as a secure base and begins
exploring the environment.
The pattern of attachment called ambivalent/resistant attachment has been associated with
a caregiver who is - ✔✔positive in their interaction but unresponsive to the signals of the
infant. (?)
The roles and stereotypes that our society connects with being a boy or girl is referring to: -
✔✔gender
Which of the following best describes the Bobo Experiment? - ✔✔Two groups of children
either witnessed or did not witness an adult displaying aggression toward an inflatable doll
and subsequent levels of aggression in the children were measured.
According to a behavior-analytic approach, morality is: - ✔✔a system of rule-governed
behavior and individuals in the culture reinforce behavior that follows the rules.
According to Bowlby's stages, preattachment is the stage in which an infant: - ✔✔has
sensory preferences that brings him into close connection with parents
According to social cognitive learning theory, children learn right from wrong - ✔✔by
imitating others engaged in moral behaviors.
