Exam 4: Theories of Cognitive Development

theory(ies) concentrate(s) on precisely detailing the processes involved in children's thinking?

Neural systems related to memory are widely distributed throughout the cortex.

Natalie is trying to balance a tall stack of books, but they keep falling. She remembers that the best way to create a block tower is to place the larger blocks at the bottom and the smaller blocks on the top, so she puts all of the large books on her desk first and then places the smaller books on top of them. Information- processing theorists would point out that Natalie has used _____to solve her problem.

Core-knowledge theories hold that children have naive theories of all of the following domains EXCEPT:

Which of the following adjectives is NOT characteristic of formal operational thought?

Both Steven, age 5, and his sister Susan, age 9, have been presented with a task in which they are shown pictures of both plants and animals. They are asked to remember which pictures are of plants. Steven is unable to distinguish the pictures, while Susan does so successfully. Which strategy has Susan used?

Brad and Tom are studying for their child development exam. Brad claims that basic parts of the information- processing theory include content knowledge, assimilation, strategies, and basic processes. Tom tells Brad that one of these parts is not correct. Which part should Tom identify as not correct?

Children first come to think abstractly and reason hypothetically in Piaget's stage.

Leanne, age 5, explains to her mother how animals grow. Surprisingly, her naive theory is very accurate. Which cognitive theories best explain Leanne's beliefs?

In theory(ies), children are born with specialized learning abilities to allow them to easily learn information of evolutionary importance.

Piaget believed that the best way for children to learn is through:

Which answer choice lists Piagetian stages in the correct sequence?

theory(ies) places particular emphasis on infants' and young children's early understandings.

Information-processing theories place particular emphasis on:

Johnny pretends that his hat is a space helmet, he thinks the world revolves around him, and he engages in one-sided conversations in which he does not listen to what the other person is saying. Johnny is in what Piagetian stage?

Which of the following views best represents sociocultural theories?

According to Piaget, infants are able to ____before they are able to ____.

Bonnie is a preschooler whose father works outside the home and whose mother stays home with her. On learning that her friend's mother works outside the home, Bonnie is confused because she believes that only fathers work outside the home. Piaget would say that Bonnie is in a state of:

According to sociocultural theories, helping children with _______is considered an important way that parents use scaffolding.

Core-knowledge theorists believe that humans are equipped with specialized learning mechanisms for: