Exam 5: Cognitive Growth: Piaget and Vygotsky

Perry found that as college students were exposed to new ideas and viewpoints,they came to understand that it is possible to hold __________ on an issue.

Three-year-old Wendy is playing hide-and-seek with some older children.However,instead of running to find a hiding place away from the other children,Wendy simply covers her eyes and stands in place.Wendy is demonstrating which Piagetian concept?

How did Piaget explain why preschool-age children in the preoperational stage make errors on tasks requiring conservation?

Explain K.Warner Schaie's perspective on stages of development and discuss how it differs from Jean Piaget's approach.

Reggie watched as his son Maurice dropped a toy elf repeatedly.Maurice varied the position from which he dropped the elf,and carefully looked each time to see where it fell.What is Maurice's behavior an example of?

Critics of Piaget believe his timeline for the development of both __________ is too late.

Which Piagetian term refers to the period of cognitive development that occurs between ages 7 and 12,and is characterized by the active and appropriate use of logic?

The tertiary circular reactions stage,substage 5 of Piaget's sensorimotor period,occurs during which age range?

Piaget believed the major achievement of the final substage in the sensorimotor stage is __________.

Vygotsky's theory that children's comprehension of the world flows from their __________ is increasingly well-supported by research.

Which criticism has been applied to Piaget's stage theory of cognitive development?

Vygotsky viewed cognitive development as the product of __________.

Research shows that the progress of cognitive development cannot be understood without considering a child's __________.

Two-year-old Alex and his mother visited the zoo.While they were there,Alex's mother took him to see the otter exhibit.When he saw an otter swimming rapidly,he pointed and said,"A fish." In the context of Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development,what is Alex demonstrating?

In the later years of the preoperational stage,children show an understanding that certain things stay the same,regardless of changes in shape,size,and appearance.What is this realization called?

According to K.Warner Schaie,what is the main cognitive developmental task of young adulthood?

What kind of reactions would be categorized as schema reflecting an infant's repetition of interesting or enjoyable actions that focus on the infant's own body?

__________ thinking is a view of the world where something is either right or wrong with no shades of grey.

The "beginnings of thought" substage of Piaget's sensorimotor period occurs during which age range?

Which term did Lev Vygotsky use to describe the physical items that a child uses to learn,as well as the intellectual and conceptual framework that the child uses to learn?