Exam 7: Conceptual Development

The belief that nature endows infants with only general learning mechanisms, such as the ability to perceive, associate, generalize, and remember, is a basic component of:

Concepts:

Trains, boats, and buses are members of the same:

_______appears to be a major factor in infants' development of a sense of space independent of their own location.

The basic understanding of desires, beliefs, perceptions, and emotions is referred to as a theory of:

What level of concepts do children typically learn first?

On the subject of growth, preschoolers believe that:

Describe two ways in which you could help an infant advance his or her coding of space. Be specific.

Isabella, who is 5 years old, observes her little brother counting the 9 pennies in front of him. He first lines all the pennies up, and then he proceeds to count them, starting from the middle of the line, proceeding first all the way to the end of the line on the right and then continuing with the left-most penny and counting to the right, ending on the penny directly to the left of the penny he counted first. He counts, "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,7, 8, 9” and then says, “I have 9 pennies.” What will Isabella probably say when asked if her brother counted correctly?

The perceptual processes whereby individuals can look at a small number of objects and almost instantaneously know how many objects are present is referred to as:

Which level of category hierarchies is the most specific?

Trisha, who is 3 years old, views an event in which no cause is visible. Which of the following activities is she likely to do?

In the domain of spatial representation and learning, nativists and empiricist agree on which of the following statements?

Anna, a 6-month-old infant, is being tickled on the tummy by her grandmother. The grandmother repeatedly tickles Anna twice and then pauses for Anna's giggles. With the tickles, Anna's grandmother says, "Beep, beep." After a minute or so of this, Anna becomes bored and stops giggling. Anna's grandmother then changes the pattern to three tickles and "Beep, beep, beep." Which of the following responses to the change in number of tickles is Anna MOST likely to make?

Children's early categories correspond most closely to the categories that adults consider:

Which of the following statements describes abstraction, in its sense as a counting principle?

Which of the following groups is made up of members of the same perceptual category?

A 1-year-old child offering a toy to a playmate who is unhappy is an example of the functioning of:

The belief that living things have a core nature that makes them who they are is referred to as:

By age 2, the connection between people's actions and______ is firmly established.