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Mounting evidence reveals that children with autism __________.


A) more often use mental state words like believe, think, and feel
B) are impaired in theory of mind
C) are advanced in joint attention and social referencing
D) excel in generating plans and inhibiting irrelevant responses

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Four-year-old Noam focuses on his own viewpoint and assumes that others perceive, think, and feel the same way he does. Noam's thinking is __________.


A) animistic
B) magical
C) egocentric
D) operational

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Preschoolers who spend more time engaged in __________ play are better at inhibiting impulses and regulating emotions.


A) block
B) sociodramatic
C) gross-motor
D) independent

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The __________ maintains alertness and consciousness.


A) cerebellum
B) amygdala
C) hippocampus
D) reticular formation

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By age 2, children __________.


A) take turns in face-to-face interaction
B) can infer a speaker's indirectly expressed intention
C) adjust their speech to fit the age of their listeners
D) adjust their speech to fit the social status of their listeners

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Guided participation __________.


A) is a narrower concept than scaffolding
B) involves spontaneous interaction with the environment
C) calls for the verbal presentation of knowledge
D) allows for variations across situations and cultures

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Yucatec Mayan parents __________ their preschoolers.


A) rely on conversation to teach
B) spend very little time with
C) rarely converse or play with
D) engage in rough-and-tumble play with

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By age 4 to 5, __________.


A) the brain increases from 40 percent to 60 percent of its adult weight
B) many parts of the cerebral cortex have overproduced synapses
C) growth in the prefrontal-cortical area slows to near-adult levels
D) synaptic pruning slows or ends

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Lia lacks growth hormone (GH) . Without medical intervention, Lia will probably __________.


A) be much taller than the average adult
B) grow slowly throughout childhood and then grow at a normal rate
C) reach an average mature height of only 4 to 4½ feet
D) be intellectually disabled

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Research with the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) early childhood subscales reveals that preschoolers who develop well intellectually have __________.


A) parents who resolve conflicts with punishment
B) parents who stimulate language
C) few educational toys or books
D) low scores in emotional support

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Itzel, a Yucatec Mayan preschooler, is hungry. She is most likely to __________.


A) decide for herself when and how much to eat
B) ask her mother to make her a meal
C) wait until the family's set mealtime to eat
D) make a pretend meal for herself and her dolls to "eat"

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When preschoolers are given tasks that are simplified and relevant to their everyday lives, they __________.


A) cannot reason effectively
B) do not infer others' intentions
C) do not display the illogical characteristics that Piaget saw in the preoperational stage
D) cannot engage in reasoning by analogy about physical changes

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In addition to acquiring vocabulary and grammar, 4-year-old Kenotae is learning to engage in effective and appropriate communication. Kenotae is learning to master the social side of language, __________.


A) phonetics
B) linguistics
C) pragmatics
D) semantics

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Three-year-old J.T. understands that 3 is more than 2, and 2 is more than 1. J.T. has a grasp of __________.


A) ordinality
B) cardinality
C) chronological order
D) one-to-one correspondence

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Children with autism __________.


A) have narrow and overly intense interests
B) have smaller-than-average brains
C) engage in more make-believe play than typically developing children
D) excel in imitating others

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Four-year-old Erin is a picky eater. How can Erin's parents encourage her to eat a new food?


A) Reward her with dessert if she eats the new food.
B) Repeatedly expose her to the new food without any direct pressure to eat it.
C) Add salt or sugar to the new food to increase her willingness to eat it.
D) Make her stay at the table until she takes a few bites of the new food.

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According to Piaget, magical thinking is common during the preschool years because young children __________.


A) fail to distinguish others' symbolic viewpoints from their own
B) egocentrically assign human purposes to physical events
C) cannot mentally go through a series of steps in a problem and then reverse direction
D) believe that physical characteristics of objects remain the same, even when their outward appearance changes

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Even preschoolers with good language skills recall poorly because they __________.


A) prefer to repeat items over and over to remember
B) are not able to remember familiar, repeated events
C) prefer to intentionally group items that are alike to remember
D) are not skilled at using memory strategies

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Jenny is considering choosing not to immunize her newborn son due to a suggested link between a mercury-based preservative used in vaccines and autism. Jenny should know that large-scale studies show __________ association with autism.


A) no
B) weak
C) modest
D) strong

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Picture-book reading with adults is an especially rich context for __________.


A) reasoning by analogy
B) category learning
C) developing reversibility
D) acquiring conservation

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