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This chapter outlines the developmental characteristics of sensory, perceptual, motor, and cognitive aspects of the young child and how they change over the first year of life. It also discusses early babbling behaviors as well as the aspects of cognition that contribute to the ability to symbolize, and thus learn language.

This activity contains 18 questions.

	Most linguistics agree that human language has a biological basis. Explain why linguists also agree that biology alone is insufficient to explain the whole process of language learning.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	Why is memory necessary for the organization and integration of incoming stimuli?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	Define and explain the importance of fully resonant nuclei (FRN).   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	Explain the difference between reduplicated babbling and variegated babbling.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	Infants are faced with a variety of challenges when attempting to make sense of the incoming stream of speech. Outline at least three of these challenges.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	Define adaptation and explain its place in the language development of a young child.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	One aspect of cognition has to do with 'organizing' information so it can be easily retrieved. What is the basic unit of this organized information known as?   scheme or concept quasi resonant nuclei phonetically consistent form echolalia

	Discrimination of incoming auditory sensori stimuli is an aspect of   perception hearing acuity object constancy integrative rehearsal

	An infant's brain and its development and maturation are under genetic control, however the following environmental factor may also influence brain development:   infant nutrition geographical location of the family lack of mobility of family unit ethnicity of infant

	Perception refers to the ongoing ability of the infant to   Demonstrate completion of myelination The gathering and organizing of incoming stimuli via the sensori modalities ability to demonstrate quasi-resonant nuclei (QRN) accomplish variegated babbling

	One of the main reasons children go through the activities of accommodation and assimilation is to   learn attention skills learn to produce fully resonant nuclei overcome their reflexive behaviors of grasping and putting things in their mouths. maintain equilibrium or a balance between what is coming in via the environment and the internal cognitive structures.

	If a child uses a collection of sounds to mean something and he uses it consistently when he says that referent, it is called   myelination of neurological entities. a phonetically consistent form a syllable a bound morpheme

	An example of variegated babbling would be   bobobobo wawawawa nogadu dadada

	Jargon is different from babbling because   the child has a repertoire of more speech acts or communication intents reflexive vocalizations become more intense during the jargon period the child has not established the realization that he/she is actually making the babble or jargon sounds. the child is using sounds in a wider variety of sequences while more accurately imitating adult paralinguistics

	When a child is 10 months old he consistently calls oatmeal 'meemee'. His caregivers know what he means and 'meemee' functions well as a   piece of jargon phonetically consistent form variegated babble form true word

	When a child is able to use words, we say that he is symbolic.    True  False

	Before children learn the symbolic nature of language, they first understand that aspects in their environment can act as 'signals' that will elicit a future action/reaction.    True  False

	Symbolic play where a child can understand that one thing can represent another e.g. a wooden spoon can be a drum stick to beat on the drum which is an overturned pot begins as soon after birth as the child can focus his/her visual attention.    True  False

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