Exam 5: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood

What are the three principles that the child-centered kindergarten honors?

Which of the following is a criticism of Vygotsky's theory?

Four-year-old Michelle talks to herself frequently. She does this especially when she is trying to solve a difficult problem. Lev Vygotsky would say that Michelle is

Three-year-old Amy looks at her grandmother's collection of glass animals and says, "Those are a 'no-no'. Do not touch." It appears that Amy is using ________ to regulate her own behavior.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2018) has established categories for weight that are determined by body mass index. Children and adolescents at or above the 97th percentile are classified as ________.

A police officer visits Timothy and Evelyn's class to discuss safety rules. To attract the children's attention, the officer brings colorful balloons and jars of bubbles for the children to blow. Later, Timothy tells his parents about all the safety rules discussed by the officer. Timothy obviously paid attention to what was

Scientists have discovered that there ________ the brains of children in the 3- to 15-year age range.

18-month-old Alan hates spinach but says, "Yum!" when he sees his mother eating her favorite spinach casserole. This indicates that

Jean Berko's experiment involving "wugs" demonstrated that young children who took part in the experiment knew

The theory of ________ refers to awareness of one's own mental processes and the mental processes of others.

The inability to distinguish between one's own perspective and someone else's perspective is known as

Identify the term for the range of tasks that are too difficult for children to master alone but can be learned with guidance and assistance from adults or more-skilled children.

Identify a characteristic of autobiographical memory.

Nurturing is a key aspect of ________, which emphasizes the education of the whole child and concern for his or her physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development.

According to Benson and Sabbagh (2017), ________ describes several operations, such as inhibition and planning, that are important for flexible, future-oriented behavior and are also connected to theory of mind development.

Name the cognitive theorist who emphasized the social contexts of learning and the construction of knowledge through social interaction.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2018) has established categories for obesity, overweight, and at risk of being overweight. Describe how these categories are determined and classified.

________ refers to an umbrella-like concept that consists of a number of higher-level cognitive processes linked to the development of the brain's prefrontal cortex, which play a role in managing thoughts to engage in goal-directed behavior and self-control.

Many of the deaths of young children around the world could be prevented by reductions in

In Piaget's theory, failing the conservation-of-liquid task demonstrates