Exam 2: Cognitive and Linguistic Development

James says, "If everyone would just agree to get along with everyone else, then we wouldn't have any more wars." From Piaget's perspective, James is probably in the stage of development.

Given what we know about children's language development, which one of the following problems is typical for the grade level?

Which one of the following teachers is definitely keeping in mind Piaget's idea that assimilation and accommodation are both necessary for learning and cognitive development to occur?

Which one of the following children shows signs that he or she is in Piaget's preoperational stage of cognitive development?

Which strategy is most likely to be effective in promoting students' vocabulary development?

Three of the following teachers are using scaffolding to help their students learn.Which one is not necessarily providing scaffolding?

Which one of the following statements best illustrates a neo-Piagetian approach to cognitive development?

Vygotsky's concept of zone of proximal development refers to:

As Chalonte reads her science textbook, she encounters the word ecology for the first time and uses the context to figure out what the word means.Given what we know about how the brain functions, we could reasonably assume that:

In Piaget's theory, a scheme can best be described as:

Which one of the following statements best reflects the idea that multiple layers of a child's environment affect the child's development in one way or another?