Obj 6.01 Key Terms

What is the term for when an infant appears to be experimenting with uttering articulate sounds but does not yet produce any recognizable words?

• Babbling

• Cooing

• Murmuring

• Stammering

What is the term for how children think, reason, and figure things out; the development of acquiring intelligence and increasingly advanced thought and problem-solving ability from infancy to adulthood?

• Cognitive development

• Physical development

• Emotional development

• Social development

What is the act of making a gentle low noise called?

• Cooing

• Barking

• Roaring

• Howling

What is the term for any interactive website, application, or software that requires an account with a username and password?

• Digital tools

• Open source software

• Offline programs

• Static websites

Who was the Swiss psychologist who was the first to make a systematic study of the acquisition of understanding in children?

• Jean Piaget

• Sigmund Freud

• Carl Jung

• Alfred Adler

What is the name of the theory that deals with the nature of knowledge itself and how humans gradually come to acquire, construct, and use it?

• Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development

• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

• Skinner’s Operant Conditioning

• Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory

What is a complex set of behaviors characterized by fun and spontaneity that can be sensory, neuromuscular, cognitive, or any combination of the three, and involves repetition of experience, exploration, experimentation, and imitation of one’s surroundings?

• Play

• Work

• Sleep

• Meditation

What is the term for time spent using a device such as a computer, phone, television, or games console?

• Screen time

• Play time

• Sleep time

• Study time

What is the first stage of Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development that begins at birth and lasts through age 2, during which one learns about the world by using their senses to interact with their surroundings?

• Sensorimotor stage

• Preoperational stage

• Concrete operational stage

• Formal operational stage

What is the term for one of the earliest stages of play where children play alone because they have not developed socially to be able to play with others yet or because they choose alone time?

• Solitary play

• Parallel play

• Cooperative play

• Associative play