Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

A) assuming responsibility for one's shortcomings 
B) acquiring wisdom 
C) gaining a sense of achievement 
D) reintegration of personal interests 
A) assuming responsibility for one's shortcomings 
B) acquiring wisdom 
C) gaining a sense of achievement 
D) reintegration of personal interests

Question 2

Eight-month-old Wilhelm makes minor changes in his schema each time his environment provides him with a new experience.What does this process represent?

Accepted Answer

A) accommodation 
B) reflexive responding 
C) assimilation 
D) secondary circular reactions 
A) accommodation 
B) reflexive responding 
C) assimilation 
D) secondary circular reactions

Question 3

Which term did Jean Piaget use to explain the process by which people understand an experience in terms of their current stage of cognitive development?

Accepted Answer

A) schematic restructuring 
B) assimilation 
C) accommodation 
D) operational engagement 
A) schematic restructuring 
B) assimilation 
C) accommodation 
D) operational engagement

Question 4

Which developmental psychologist argued that cognitive development is a result of social interactions in which children learn through guided participation and working with mentors to solve problems?

Accepted Answer

A) K)Warner Schaie 
B) Jean Piaget 
C) Gisela Labouvie-Vief 
D) Lev Vygotsky 
A) K)Warner Schaie 
B) Jean Piaget 
C) Gisela Labouvie-Vief 
D) Lev Vygotsky

Question 5

According to developmental psychologist K.Warner Schaie,the stage in which the major concerns of middle-aged adults relate to their personal situations is also known as what?

Accepted Answer

A) achieving stage 
B) acquisitive stage 
C) executive stage 
D) responsible stage 
A) achieving stage 
B) acquisitive stage 
C) executive stage 
D) responsible stage

Question 6

Vygotsky's theory is sometimes criticized for overlooking how basic cognitive processes such as __________ develop.

Accepted Answer

A) reversibility and conservation 
B) attention and memory 
C) intuition and symbolic thought 
D) concrete thinking and logic 
A) reversibility and conservation 
B) attention and memory 
C) intuition and symbolic thought 
D) concrete thinking and logic

Question 7

Which term did Piaget use to describe changes in existing ways of thinking that occur in response to encounters with new stimuli or events?

Accepted Answer

A) accommodation 
B) schema reversal 
C) formal operations 
D) assimilation 
A) accommodation 
B) schema reversal 
C) formal operations 
D) assimilation

Question 8

What are the primary criticisms of Vygotsky's sociocultural approach to cognitive development?

Accepted Answer

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Question 9

Rikki normally breastfeeds her baby Chloe;however,during the workday Rikki's mother watches Chloe,and the baby must be fed with a bottle.Rikki has noticed that Chloe's approach to the bottle is somewhat different than Chloe's approach to her breast.What would Piaget say this is an example of?

Accepted Answer

A) coordination of secondary circular reactions of the sensorimotor stage 
B) simple reflexes of the sensorimotor stage 
C) mental representations of the beginning of thought 
D) first habits and primary circular reactions of the sensorimotor stage 
A) coordination of secondary circular reactions of the sensorimotor stage 
B) simple reflexes of the sensorimotor stage 
C) mental representations of the beginning of thought 
D) first habits and primary circular reactions of the sensorimotor stage

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

A) Development proceeds in a more continuous,gradual fashion than a stage model would propose. 
B) The preoperational stage should really be divided into seven substages. 
C) Piaget didn't propose enough stages to account for cognitive development in infancy. 
D) Stages aren't distinct enough to capture the sudden jumps in qualitative reasoning that children go through. 
A) Development proceeds in a more continuous,gradual fashion than a stage model would propose. 
B) The preoperational stage should really be divided into seven substages. 
C) Piaget didn't propose enough stages to account for cognitive development in infancy. 
D) Stages aren't distinct enough to capture the sudden jumps in qualitative reasoning that children go through.

Question 11

Vygotsky believed that societal expectations about __________ play a role in how children come to understand the world.

Accepted Answer

A) intelligence 
B) gender 
C) temperament 
D) personality 
A) intelligence 
B) gender 
C) temperament 
D) personality

Question 12

What did Piaget call mental structures that formed the basic building blocks of how children understand the world?

Accepted Answer

A) assimilations 
B) accommodations 
C) schema 
D) memories 
A) assimilations 
B) accommodations 
C) schema 
D) memories

Question 13

How did Jean Piaget describe the developmental stage during which people acquire the ability to think abstractly?

Accepted Answer

A) concrete operational stage 
B) preoperational stage 
C) formal operational stage 
D) sensorimotor stage 
A) concrete operational stage 
B) preoperational stage 
C) formal operational stage 
D) sensorimotor stage

Question 14

What did Jean Piaget call the process by which repetition of a chance motor event helps a baby start building cognitive schema?

Accepted Answer

A) first habits 
B) simple reflexes 
C) circular reaction 
D) restructuring 
A) first habits 
B) simple reflexes 
C) circular reaction 
D) restructuring

Question 15

What is the correct sequence of developmental stages that Jean Piaget claimed all infants pass through?

Accepted Answer

A) sensorimotor,concrete operational,preoperational,formal operational 
B) sensorimotor,formal operational,preoperational,concrete operational 
C) preoperational,sensorimotor,concrete operational,formal operational 
D) sensorimotor,preoperational,concrete operational,formal operational 
A) sensorimotor,concrete operational,preoperational,formal operational 
B) sensorimotor,formal operational,preoperational,concrete operational 
C) preoperational,sensorimotor,concrete operational,formal operational 
D) sensorimotor,preoperational,concrete operational,formal operational

Question 16

The four stages of cognitive development,according to Piaget,are __________.

Accepted Answer

A) sensorimotor,secondary circular,intuitive thought,and formal operational 
B) primary,assimilation,concrete operational,and egocentric thought 
C) simple reflex,preoperational,symbolic functional,and intuitive thought 
D) sensorimotor,preoperational,concrete operational,and formal operational 
A) sensorimotor,secondary circular,intuitive thought,and formal operational 
B) primary,assimilation,concrete operational,and egocentric thought 
C) simple reflex,preoperational,symbolic functional,and intuitive thought 
D) sensorimotor,preoperational,concrete operational,and formal operational

Question 17

According to Schaie's stages of cognitive development,young adults' focus shifts from the future to the here-and-now as they enter the __________ stage.

Accepted Answer

A) responsible 
B) achieving 
C) reintegrative 
D) acquisitive 
A) responsible 
B) achieving 
C) reintegrative 
D) acquisitive

Question 18

One hallmark of the preoperational stage is __________,thinking that does not take into account the viewpoints of others.

Accepted Answer

A) concrete thought 
B) egocentric thought 
C) symbolic thought 
D) intuitive thought 
A) concrete thought 
B) egocentric thought 
C) symbolic thought 
D) intuitive thought

Question 19

What does concrete operational thought fundamentally involve?

Accepted Answer

A) applying reasoning to solve problems 
B) applying intuition to solve problems 
C) applying logical operations to solve problems 
D) applying abstract knowledge to solve problems 
A) applying reasoning to solve problems 
B) applying intuition to solve problems 
C) applying logical operations to solve problems 
D) applying abstract knowledge to solve problems

Question 20

What did Jean Piaget think appears during Substage 4 of the sensorimotor period,and enables an infant to realize that people and objects exist even when they cannot be seen?

Accepted Answer

A) retribution 
B) object permanence 
C) assimilation 
D) goal-directed behavior 
A) retribution 
B) object permanence 
C) assimilation 
D) goal-directed behavior

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

Eight-month-old Wilhelm makes minor changes in his schema each time his environment provides him with a new experience.What does this process represent?

Which term did Jean Piaget use to explain the process by which people understand an experience in terms of their current stage of cognitive development?

Which developmental psychologist argued that cognitive development is a result of social interactions in which children learn through guided participation and working with mentors to solve problems?

According to developmental psychologist K.Warner Schaie,the stage in which the major concerns of middle-aged adults relate to their personal situations is also known as what?

Vygotsky's theory is sometimes criticized for overlooking how basic cognitive processes such as __________ develop.

Which term did Piaget use to describe changes in existing ways of thinking that occur in response to encounters with new stimuli or events?

What are the primary criticisms of Vygotsky's sociocultural approach to cognitive development?

Rikki normally breastfeeds her baby Chloe;however,during the workday Rikki's mother watches Chloe,and the baby must be fed with a bottle.Rikki has noticed that Chloe's approach to the bottle is somewhat different than Chloe's approach to her breast.What would Piaget say this is an example of?

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

Vygotsky believed that societal expectations about __________ play a role in how children come to understand the world.

What did Piaget call mental structures that formed the basic building blocks of how children understand the world?

How did Jean Piaget describe the developmental stage during which people acquire the ability to think abstractly?

What did Jean Piaget call the process by which repetition of a chance motor event helps a baby start building cognitive schema?

What is the correct sequence of developmental stages that Jean Piaget claimed all infants pass through?

The four stages of cognitive development,according to Piaget,are __________.

According to Schaie's stages of cognitive development,young adults' focus shifts from the future to the here-and-now as they enter the __________ stage.

One hallmark of the preoperational stage is __________,thinking that does not take into account the viewpoints of others.

What does concrete operational thought fundamentally involve?

What did Jean Piaget think appears during Substage 4 of the sensorimotor period,and enables an infant to realize that people and objects exist even when they cannot be seen?

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Exam 5: Cognitive Growth: Piaget and Vygotsky

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

Eight-month-old Wilhelm makes minor changes in his schema each time his environment provides him with a new experience.What does this process represent?

Which term did Jean Piaget use to explain the process by which people understand an experience in terms of their current stage of cognitive development?

Which developmental psychologist argued that cognitive development is a result of social interactions in which children learn through guided participation and working with mentors to solve problems?

According to developmental psychologist K.Warner Schaie,the stage in which the major concerns of middle-aged adults relate to their personal situations is also known as what?

Vygotsky's theory is sometimes criticized for overlooking how basic cognitive processes such as __________ develop.

Which term did Piaget use to describe changes in existing ways of thinking that occur in response to encounters with new stimuli or events?

What are the primary criticisms of Vygotsky's sociocultural approach to cognitive development?

Rikki normally breastfeeds her baby Chloe;however,during the workday Rikki's mother watches Chloe,and the baby must be fed with a bottle.Rikki has noticed that Chloe's approach to the bottle is somewhat different than Chloe's approach to her breast.What would Piaget say this is an example of?

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

Vygotsky believed that societal expectations about __________ play a role in how children come to understand the world.

What did Piaget call mental structures that formed the basic building blocks of how children understand the world?

How did Jean Piaget describe the developmental stage during which people acquire the ability to think abstractly?

What did Jean Piaget call the process by which repetition of a chance motor event helps a baby start building cognitive schema?

What is the correct sequence of developmental stages that Jean Piaget claimed all infants pass through?

The four stages of cognitive development,according to Piaget,are __________.

According to Schaie's stages of cognitive development,young adults' focus shifts from the future to the here-and-now as they enter the __________ stage.

One hallmark of the preoperational stage is __________,thinking that does not take into account the viewpoints of others.

What does concrete operational thought fundamentally involve?

What did Jean Piaget think appears during Substage 4 of the sensorimotor period,and enables an infant to realize that people and objects exist even when they cannot be seen?

An Orientation to Lifespan Development

Genetics, Prenatal Development, and Birth

Physical Growth and Aging Across the Life Span

Health and Wellness

Cognitive Growth: Information Processing Approaches

Language Development

Intelligence

Social and Emotional Development

Development of the Self

Moral Development and Aggression

Gender and Sexuality

Friends and Family

Schooling, Culture, and Society: Living in a Multicultural World

Death and Dying

Filters