Exam 8: Physical and Cognitive Development of Early Childhood

The ability to think about the mental states of other people in relatively adult­like ways typically appears during the ____________ year of life.

The practice of parents using a highly elaborative interaction style with their children has been associated with which of the following outcomes?

The ability to think about other people's mental states that develops in a child's fourth or fifth year of life is referred to as:

Recent evidence suggests that children's thought is much less uneven than Piaget believed.

Cultural contexts influence the unevenness of children's development by:

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

According to Piaget, a child who reasons that it can't be afternoon yet because she has not had her nap is engaged in:

How can brain development account for achievements and errors in problem solving? Use the example of children's scale errors to explain your answer.

How do cultural­context theorists differ from Piaget in their approach to cognitive development?

Investigations of children's performance on appearance­reality tasks suggests that:

Describe evidence from two studies that support conclusions that young children develop relatively sophisticated understandings of how the physical world works.

The domain of biology is considered a privileged domain.

What is Piaget's explanation of magical thinking?

In Piaget and Inhelder's classic "three­mountain problems," where preoperational children are asked to identify the doll's perspective, they almost always choose the picture that corresponds to:

Which of the following is an example of a child using a mental operation?

According to a cultural­context theorist, Devin would be expected to resort to illogical thinking when:

An outcome of centration in children's thinking is that they:

A father pours a glass of milk for his daughter. The daughter wants more, so the father pours the milk from a short, fat glass into a tall, thin one. The daughter is now happy to have gotten more. The daughter:

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

That children must acquire a large repertoire of scripts needed for appropriate contexts provides a natural explanation of: