Lifespan Human Development Exam 3
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How could scientists test infants' ability to perceive language sounds? At what age
can infants distinguish vowels and consonants? - correct answer ✔✔Habituation.
By 1 month.
What is cooing? What is babbling? - correct answer ✔✔cooing - ( 2
Months)Vowel-like sounds’", "ahhh"
babbling- (6-10 Months) Speech-like sounds with no meaning Precursor to real
speech"Baahahah"
What does naming explosion mean? At what age does explosion occur? - correct
answer ✔✔Learning new words, particularly names of objects. Occurs btwn 15
and 24 months.
How can adults promote children's word learning? - correct answer ✔✔•labeling
unfamiliar objects
-"banana, that's a banana"
•naming games
-"where's your nose?" "Where's your tummy"
What does fast mapping mean? Know about - correct answer ✔✔Process of
rapidly learning a new word simply from hearing the contrastive use of a familiar
word and the unfamiliar word.("Get the chromium tray, not the red one.")
, mutual exclusivity - correct answer ✔✔Expectancy that a given entity will have
only one name.("Show me the Blicket.", *Toddler shown 2 objects (teddy bear &
unfamiliar object): they know what teddy bear is.)
whole object assumption - correct answer ✔✔Expectant that a novel word refers
to a whole objects, rather than to a part, property, action, or other aspects of the
object.("Dinosaur")
syntactic bootstrapping - correct answer ✔✔Using the grammatical structure of
whole sentences to figure out meaning.("The Duck is kradding the Rabbit.")("The
rabbit and the duck are kradding.")
Understand two naming errors, under-extension and overextension. - correct
answer ✔✔Defining a word too narrowly(Saying a car is only for a family car, or a
ball is only for a favorite toy ball.)
Defining a word too broadly(Saying a dog is any four-legged animal, or a car is only
for buses and trucks.)
What does telegraphic speech mean? - correct answer ✔✔Two-word sentences at
1.5 years/18 months("Gimme cookie", "More juice")2nd B-day they begin to have
longer sentences filled with grammatical morphemes.... "I am kicking the ball".)
How did the scientist test young children's ability to make a plural? - correct
answer ✔✔?
Understand how language skills change during adult years. When does the "tip-of-
the-tounge phenomenon" become readily apparent? - correct answer
✔✔Maintain language skills Some reduction in language in late adulthood
Tip of tongue pheno becomes apparent during late adulthood.
Study Guide fully solved
How could scientists test infants' ability to perceive language sounds? At what age
can infants distinguish vowels and consonants? - correct answer ✔✔Habituation.
By 1 month.
What is cooing? What is babbling? - correct answer ✔✔cooing - ( 2
Months)Vowel-like sounds’", "ahhh"
babbling- (6-10 Months) Speech-like sounds with no meaning Precursor to real
speech"Baahahah"
What does naming explosion mean? At what age does explosion occur? - correct
answer ✔✔Learning new words, particularly names of objects. Occurs btwn 15
and 24 months.
How can adults promote children's word learning? - correct answer ✔✔•labeling
unfamiliar objects
-"banana, that's a banana"
•naming games
-"where's your nose?" "Where's your tummy"
What does fast mapping mean? Know about - correct answer ✔✔Process of
rapidly learning a new word simply from hearing the contrastive use of a familiar
word and the unfamiliar word.("Get the chromium tray, not the red one.")
, mutual exclusivity - correct answer ✔✔Expectancy that a given entity will have
only one name.("Show me the Blicket.", *Toddler shown 2 objects (teddy bear &
unfamiliar object): they know what teddy bear is.)
whole object assumption - correct answer ✔✔Expectant that a novel word refers
to a whole objects, rather than to a part, property, action, or other aspects of the
object.("Dinosaur")
syntactic bootstrapping - correct answer ✔✔Using the grammatical structure of
whole sentences to figure out meaning.("The Duck is kradding the Rabbit.")("The
rabbit and the duck are kradding.")
Understand two naming errors, under-extension and overextension. - correct
answer ✔✔Defining a word too narrowly(Saying a car is only for a family car, or a
ball is only for a favorite toy ball.)
Defining a word too broadly(Saying a dog is any four-legged animal, or a car is only
for buses and trucks.)
What does telegraphic speech mean? - correct answer ✔✔Two-word sentences at
1.5 years/18 months("Gimme cookie", "More juice")2nd B-day they begin to have
longer sentences filled with grammatical morphemes.... "I am kicking the ball".)
How did the scientist test young children's ability to make a plural? - correct
answer ✔✔?
Understand how language skills change during adult years. When does the "tip-of-
the-tounge phenomenon" become readily apparent? - correct answer
✔✔Maintain language skills Some reduction in language in late adulthood
Tip of tongue pheno becomes apparent during late adulthood.
