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Educational Psychology explores the scientific study of how people learn and develop within educational settings. The course examines foundational theories of cognitive, emotional, and social development, instructional strategies, motivation, classroom management, assessment, and individual differences among learners. Students will analyze how psychological principles can be applied to enhance teaching and learning, foster inclusive and supportive classroom environments, and address diverse educational needs. Through case studies, research analysis, and practical applications, learners will gain insights into how educational psychology informs effective educational practice and policy.
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Language Development 4th Edition by Erika Hoff
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Chapter 1: Introduction to the Study of Language Development
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Q1) The biological approach to researching child language acquisition:
A) focuses on the relationship of the child's developmental milestones and language learning mechanisms.
B) represents the debate between psychologists and linguists on how the child processes language in the brain.
C) examines how language and language development are related to biological processes.
D) explains the fact that language is acquired and is considered the "learnability approach" to research.
Answer: C
Q2) The study of language development is used as an applied research topic for: (WWW)
A) children who have a variety of conditions, including mental retardation, brain injury, and hearing impairment.
B) commercial industries to increase the economic stature of businesses.
C) sociologists interested cultural differences.
D) researchers interested in autism.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Biological Bases of Language Development
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Q1) The study of nueroanatomy is applied to:
A) investigations of how the cerebral cortex and subcortical structures influence language development.
B) research on whether language is a separate, isolated function or a factor of human beings' general cognitive development.
C) explain the role of the corpus collosum in language delayed individuals.
D) examine how contralateral connections determine language development milestones.
Answer: B
Q2) The language bioprogram hypothesis developed to explain:
A) how children acquire pidgins.
B) the underlying theory of language universals.
C) that humans are endowed with a "skeletal" or "core" grammar which is comprised of all or a portion of the human species-specific capacity for syntax.
D) aspects of developing internal knowledge of language.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Communicative Development: Foundations and Functions of Language
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Q1) The one form of language that is influenced by the active instruction of caregivers is
A) pragmatics
B) communicative competence
C) linguistic competence
D) sociolinguistic competence
Answer: D
Q2) early research on referential communication skills:
A) provided the foundation for studying children's communicative competence.
B) paralleled Piaget's view that children are egocentric.
C) illustrated that children have difficulties modifying their speech in social settings.
D) indicated that children are unable to take into account the needs of their listener.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Phonological Development: Learning the Sounds of Language
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Q1) Results of research on infant sound perception and language development:
A) bring up questions regarding which languages are interesting to babies.
B) indicate that babies perceive and remember certain kinds of sounds and not others.
C) suggest that babies are programmed for language-specific memory skills while in utero.
D) are used in studies on what babies perceive and remember after birth.
Q2) Research using the high amplitude sucking, and head turning techniques have suggested that:
A) infants can discriminate between two sounds.
B) infants can discriminate sound contrasts that are common to their own language, but not those that are used only in other languages.
C) infants are not able to discriminate between speech sounds until approximately six months.
D) speech sound discrimination is fully developed before children learn to talk.
Q3) Describe the features of the four models of phonological development. Compare and contrast each model.
Q4) Describe research on rule- and constraint-based approaches to studying phonological development.
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Chapter 5: Lexical Development: Learning Words
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Q1) Research indicates that children use overextensions:
A) in the same way across languages.
B) differently at each developmental stage.
C) in the same way at each developmental stage.
D) infrequently and are usually not predictable.
Q2) Gathercole and Baddeley (1989) showed vocabulary size might be related to:
A) family size
B) age of first word
C) articulation abilities
D) phonological memory
Q3) The two pragmatic principles to word learning, principles of conventionality and principles of contrast refer to:
A) ways that researchers study the referential use of language.
B) how children learn through comparisons and contrasts.
C) how children learn language by contrasting word meaning used in a variety of contexts.
D) the fact that members of a language community share the same use of meaning of words and those different words carry different meanings with them.
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Chapter 6: The Development of Syntax and Morphology:
Learning the Structure of Language
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Q1) The study of early childhood language centers on the following three categories of linguistic rules. They are:
A) lexical categories, functional categories and hierarchical sentence structure.
B) open-class words, closed-class words and sentence structure.
C) None of these answers are true.
D) Both of these answers are true.
Q2) Morphemes are:
A) lexical items.
B) the smallest units of meaning.
C) a sentence unit.
D) embedded in words.
Q3) Review the text discussion of the role of language experience and discuss the meaning of the phonological bootstrapping hypothesis.
Q4) Telegraphic speech:
A) represents primitive use of noun + verb utterances.
B) tends to be negations or questions.
C) represents adult-like simple phrases.
D) is usually comprised of affirmative or declarative statements.
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Chapter 7: Language, Culture, and Cognition in Development
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Q1) The early psychologist, Jean Piaget, posited that:
A) language is dependent on, but precedes thought.
B) thought is dependent on, but precedes language.
C) cognition develops as a result of nonlinguistic interactions with the world.
D) nonlinguistic interactions with the world cause language to develop.
Q2) That language is a medium for thought is a view supported by:
A) Jean Piaget
B) Dan Slobin
C) Lev Vygotsky
D) Benjamin Whorf
Q3) A comparison of how English, Japanese and Korean speakers use verbs and nouns in early childhood illustrates that
A) Korean-speaking children used more verbs than English-speaking children.
B) English-speaking children used more nouns than Korean and Japanese speaking children.
C) Korean-speaking children acquired concepts of means/ends earlier than English speaking children.
D) All of these statements are true.
Q4) Describe research regarding the influence of language on the development of thought?
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Chapter 8: Childhood Bilingualism
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Q1) Code switching can involve mixing parts of a:
A) phrase or lexical item with any part of a sentence from another language.
B) sentence with parts of sentences from other languages.
C) Both of these answers are true.
D) Both of these answers are false.
Q2) An important factor in how bilingual children learn language regards:
A) the amount of input the children get from people speaking each language.
B) the child's innate ability to learn language.
C) how parents use the two languages with the child, what time of day and for what reason.
D) the degree of difference between the two languages the child is exposed to.
Q3) Describe social, cultural, political and economic issues that impact bilingual language development programs.
Q4) Discuss how cultural perspective influences bilingual language development.
Q5) Identify the different ways that second language acquisition is different from first language acquisition and how outcomes are different for the learner.
Q6) Describe research on factors that encourage second language acquisition. Discuss recent studies on the relationship of age to learning second languages.
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Chapter 9: Language in School Years
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Q1) Studies of conversational style in older children focus on issues regarding ______________.
A) current topics
B) identity or role of the speaker
C) rate of speech and dialect
D) gender and language
Q2) Explain how the text defines "compounding" and discuss theories on how and when children acquire this skill.
Q3) By the age of four or five years, children have completed their morphosyntactic development except in the area of:
A) clauses that use complements.
B) speech acts.
C) use of expanded noun phrases, adverbial clauses, subordinate clauses and other complex structures.
D) adverbial phrases.
Q4) Research and common knowledge about oral language and early experience in literacy differs. Describe the research and discuss the elements that differ from common knowledge.
Q5) Describe how children acquire accents and make changes in dialect.
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Chapter 10: Language Development in Special Populations
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Q1) Researchers studying children with Down syndrome:
A) agree that the course of grammatical development after adolescence is similar across the population.
B) found that some individuals plateau at learning vocabulary because the focus of their schooling transitions from education to vocational development.
C) have differing views on their language development at adolescence.
D) report that expressive language generally plateaus at age 12.
Q2) Sign language refers to:
A) language used by children who are deaf.
B) all forms of manual communication.
C) gestural communication.
D) manual language used in the deaf community.
Q3) Some research indicates that children who have blindness have difficulties in acquiring use of ______________.
A) auxiliary verbs
B) nouns
C) complex language structures
D) clauses
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