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51. Baby Lydia likes to play with small pots and pans : 1198995
51. Baby Lydia likes to play with small pots and pans as they make noise. She enjoys the sound, but often gets tired after a short time. She then puts a container in front of her and beats that with a large spoon. It is much easier and the noise is even louder this way. This is an example of which of the following concepts?
A. Primary circular reactions
B. Secondary circular reactions
C. Tertiary circular reactions
D. Reflex behaviors
52. Adam tries to get his bunny off the top of his toy box. After several failed attempts with his arm, he brings the toy down using a toy sword. This example of a tertiary circular reaction involves
A. focusing on pleasant bodily sensations first achieved by chance.
B. trying out different ways of attaining the goal.
C. repeating the identical action whether successful or not.
D. manipulating symbols to store concepts and schemes.
53. The substage of sensorimotor development in which the child uses trial and error to find which one of his or her physical skills works best for a particular task is referred to as
A. primary circular reactions.
B. secondary circular reactions.
C. coordination of secondary schemes.
D. tertiary circular reactions.
54. Which of the following substages of the sensorimotor stage marks a transition into the preoperational stage of early childhood?
A. Tertiary circular reactions
B. Primary reflexes
C. Primary circular reactions
D. Mental combinations
55. Which of the following abilities in the sensorimotor stage frees toddlers from immediate experience?
A. Adaptational ability
B. Use of causality
C. Representational ability
D. Use of schemes
56. Alex watches his mother play tennis in the morning. Later, when he is alone, Alex picks up a stick and swings it like a tennis racquet, imitating his mother’s actions from earlier in the day. According to Piaget’s stages of cognitive development, Alex is in the _____ substage of the sensorimotor stage.
A. 3rd
B. 4th
C. 5th
D. 6th
57. Piaget’s observation that infants under the age of about 8 months act as if an object no longer exists once it is out of their line of sight, led to his theorizing that
A. toddlers below the age of two years have the ability to mentally represent objects and actions.
B. objects have independent existence, characteristics, and locations in space for infants and toddlers.
C. children do not understand the concept of numbers before the age of 2.
D. object permanence is an innate feature of cognition and is present at birth.
58. Penny loves to play peek-a-boo with her baby brother. The realization that an object or person continues to exist even when out of sight is known as
A. habituation.
B. object permanence.
C. joint symbolism.
D. object fixation.
59. Leo cries loudly every time his mother leaves the room and cannot bear being separated from her. He seems to believe that she is never coming back. Leo has not yet developed the sense of
A. anticipatory insight.
B. emotional attachment.
C. transitivity.
D. object permanence.
60. Research on object permanence suggests that
A. a baby’s failure to search for hidden objects is a result of his/her inability to perform the sequence of actions necessary for solving a problem.
B. the violation-of-expectations technique cannot be used to study object permanence.
C. infants as young as 4 months typically remember an object that they can no longer see.
D. babies gaze longer at possible events than at impossible events.
