Exam 2: The Development of Cognitive, Learning, and Language Skills

If children are preprogrammed to learn language, then there is probably a ____________________ for developing language.

The temporary difference in levels of performance that a child shows between various cognitive domains or activities within a given stage of development.

Piaget's theory is based on the premise of

Three-year-old Rodney is playing with the neighbor's pet. Rodney is surprised when his mother uses the word "cat" to describe the pet he thought was a dog. Piaget would say that Rodney is experiencing

A frequently used metaphor for stagelike development is climbing a staircase.

Marva is given two equal balls of clay. She rolls out one of the balls of clay into a long snake. Marva recognizes the long snake of clay still contains the same amount of clay as the ball of clay because she has acquired the skill of

Once a concrete operational child can mentally reverse a physical operation, they are said to have thinking that is

Research has shown that children can solve analogies well before they are 11 or 12 years of age, the age at which formal operational thinking begins.

What is the "American Problem" as noted in your text?

Annette takes her son, Henry, to the museum. As he shows interest, Annette uses the opportunity to explain what the exhibits mean. Annette is using which instructional method?

A child is unlikely to get an A in reading and an F in English, an example of domain-general development.

Emily loves to read stories, and she has a great ability to understand written and spoken material. Emily performs well in this information-processing domain.

Weakly canalized abilities, including many academic and interpersonal skills, develop only with respect to the environment.

Which of the following is NOT one of the criticisms of Piaget's theory?

A possible fifth stage of cognitive development that is concerned with how well a person recognizes which problems are worth solving more so than how well they solve problems.

These cognitive frameworks provide a way to understand and organize new knowledge.

Which of the following is NOT one of Vygotsky's three particularly important ideas about cognitive development?

If development occurs more or less simultaneously in multiple areas, then which developmental theory is most correct?

Learning is any relatively permanent change in thought or behavior that occurs as a result of experience.

Languages produce a limited number of sentences.