Exam 8: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood

According to a cultural-context theorist, Jason would be expected to resort to illogical thinking when:

When children see a surprising causal event that is inconsistent with what they have already learned about the world, their first response is to:

Approximately what percent of U.S. families do not have access to enough food to ensure good health for all family members?

Piaget believed that children's inability to keep two aspects of a problem in mind was at the heart of all of the following characteristics of thinking in early childhood EXCEPT:

What pattern of responses has been found when experimenters ask young children questions regarding appearance/reality distinctions?

According to Katherine Nelson, children construct scripts from their:

Proponents of the theory theory view suggest that interactions with others play an important role in the process of theory construction and testing.

According to Piaget, mental operations are:

The idea of the theory theory is that children are born with innate modules of knowledge that proceed to mature physically, leading to improved reasoning skills.

According to Piaget, a child who has difficulty identifying a picture that corresponds to another's point of view of a model has limited:

Egocentrism reflects moments in early childhood thought during which children are able to mentally pull away from focusing on a single aspect of a situation.

According to the _____, the sensory register, short-term storage, and long-term storage represent the basic system for attending to, interpreting, and storing information.

According to Helen Borke, 3-year-old Jennifer is MORE likely to solve a perspective-taking problem correctly:

John, a boy with autism spectrum disorder, sees a comic strip in which a girl grabs a milk carton and pours orange juice into a glass. When explaining this event, John would MOST likely say:

When John Flavell and his colleagues showed children objects that appeared to be one thing but were really another, they found that:

What is a technique used to assess children's theory of mind where children are tested on their understanding of either stories in which a character is fooled into believing something that is not true or of situations in which they themselves have been tricked?

Cultural contexts influence the unevenness of children's development by regulating a child's role in the activity.

According to Katherine Nelson, mental modules are the way that the external world is converted into internal mental structures that guide action.

Which of the following BEST describes the growth of the brain during early childhood?

Which of the following is NOT considered a privileged domain?