Exam 6: Cognitive Development I: Structure and Process

Kurt does not want to go to school today because he believes that everybody will notice his new haircut that he thinks is too short. This is an example of

Angelina has just started to use language and participate in "make believe." Which of Piaget's stages is she in?

As she works on a puzzle, Kayla tells herself to "put all the straight edges together." She is in which of Vygotsky's stages of cognitive development?

Beth has remembered a grocery list by grouping it into lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, and beef, ham, fish. What technique has she used?

Piaget believed that __________ was the chief process through which new stages of cognitive development are reached.

When asked what she would do if she were principal of her school, 10-year-old Brianne is most likely to

Flavell has proposed that there are two levels of perspective-taking ability. At Level 2, the child

Max has begun to operate on ideas as well as events or objects. What stage of development is Max in?

According to Piaget, a baby's repetitive actions in substage 3 of the sensorimotor period, oriented around external objects where the infant repeats some action in order to have some outside event occur, is called __________ .

_______________are a set of alternative proposals based on the information-processing model that expand on, rather than contradict, Piaget's views.

A child who uses inductive logic can

In Piaget's __________ stage, children begin to understand the principle of conservation.

In Piaget's theory, the notion that children can see events only from their own point of view is called __________ .

A typical ________ child is able to understand that someone else can believe something that is not true.

All of the following are part of Vygotsky's socio-cultural theory EXCEPT

The low levels of formal thought in adolescents and adults may be due to a lack of ________ in some areas.

Elkind hypothesized that adolescents often believe that the events of one's life are controlled by a mentally constructed autobiography called a(n)

Five-year-old Coretta has a production deficiency in her memory use. This is evident in the fact that she

According to research by Robert Siegler,

During the concrete operations period, children develop the ability to use ________ logic; that is, going from their own experience to a general principle.