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Think Social: Developing Social Understanding in Children Who are Deaf (Professionals)

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1.  False belief understanding emerges at approximately what age in children with typical hearing?
  1. one-two years
  2. two-three years
  3. four-five years
  4. six-seven years
2.  Two year olds with normal hearing exhibit what type of thinking?
  1. desire-based
  2. false belief understanding
  3. real-apparent emotion understanding
  4. belief-based
3.  Theory of mind development in the Remmel and Peters studies was best predicted by:
  1. use and understanding of proposition complements specifically
  2. general language ability
  3. age at identification of hearing loss
  4. general vocabulary
4.  One strategy for facilitating ToM development in infants is:
  1. talking about the past
  2. playing guessing games
  3. verbalizing emotions
  4. modeling predictions
5.  Moeller and Schick (2006) found that false belief understanding in children who were deaf was correlated with:
  1. hearing age
  2. maternal sign language level
  3. communication mode
  4. syntax
6.  Children who are deaf are at risk for developing ToM deficits if:
  1. They have general language delays
  2. Their parents are not Deaf
  3. Their parents only use spoken language
  4. They have older siblings
7.  The most advanced level of social cognition, according to the Wellman and Lui Scale (2004) is understanding of
  1. Diverse desires
  2. Diverse beliefs
  3. False beliefs
  4. Real-apparent emotion
8.  A good strategy for facilitating ToM in school-age children is:
  1. using of experience books
  2. reinforcing noun learning
  3. taking extended turns
  4. developing several endings to a story
9.  Peters, Remmel, and Richards (2009) found a correlation between false belief understanding and:
  1. Mental state term use
  2. Non-verbal IQ
  3. Memory for complements
  4. Age at identification of hearing loss
10.  Research has shown that children who are deaf perform similarly on false belief measures to:
  1. Children with down syndrome
  2. Children on the autistic spectrum
  3. Children with learning disabilities
  4. Children with specific language impairment

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