Exam 8: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood

In Piaget and Inhelder's classic "three-mountain problems," where preoperational children are asked to identify the doll's perspective, they almost always choose the picture that corresponds to:

The information-processing approach considers cognitive development:

Researchers believe that children with autism spectrum disorder provide support for a modularity theory of development because these children:

Cultures influence the unevenness of children's development in one main way.

Early scripts are essentially external cultural tools.

The domain of biology is considered a privileged domain.

Judy DeLoache reasons that the scale errors made by young children are likely due to:

Piaget viewed development as tied to the specific contexts within which a child develops.

Cultural context can play a role in brain development, such as increased growth of cells in the parietal cortex in cultures that emphasize spatial tasks.

According to information-processing theorists, the sensory register:

According to information-processing theorists, development:

Information-processing theorists view the main components of the mind as including all of the following EXCEPT:

When asked what a sponge that appeared to be a rock looked like and what it really was, a 3-year-old who said it looked like a rock, would say it really was a ____________.

Naïve psychology refers to:

Limitations in children's problem solving can be explained by low levels of myelination in the hippocampus, which supports working memory.

As used by Piaget, "egocentrism" refers to:

Stimulation from the environment is detected by sensory organs and passes on to the:

Information-processing psychologists are united by a common view of capacity limitations, citing the causes of young children's difficulties as all of the following EXCEPT:

Research has demonstrated that young children have the _____ to take the perspectives of others, but their _____ may be affected by the demands of the task.

According to Piaget, the stage in which children cannot decenter their thinking or think through the consequences of an action is known as the: