Infants progress through stages of cooing, babbling, and then jargoning before they are able to produce words.

Claire wants to remember the list of items her best friend wants for her birthday, so she will know what to buy her friend at the toy store. By clustering the items into categories such as “Barbie stuff,” “books,” and “art supplies,” Claire is using what strategy to help her remember?

Piaget called the period of cognitive development that occurs during early childhood the preoperational stage.

According to Freud, the development of the ego is associated with children’s newfound ability to experience shame and guilt.

Before puberty, the strength level of girls and boys is the same.

Very young babies demonstrate the ability to discriminate between different amounts.

Children who display a mastery-oriented motivational pattern are likely to give up when they begin failing at a task.

Which picture would Warren, a 2-year-old, MOST likely select when presented with a sentence such as “Big Bird is daxing Cookie Monster”?

According to James Marcia, there are four patterns of coping with the task of identity formation that arise from four possible patterns of crisis/exploration and commitment.

Young children’s eye movements were found to be haphazard, whereas older children systematically scanned pictures when asked to identify whether pictures of two houses were different or identical. These behaviors are thought to reflect what processes?