Exam 7: Conceptual Development

Which statement would be considered evidence that an infant has formed the category "furniture"?

How do preschool-age children engage in causal reasoning?

Which statement about play is TRUE?

Trevor, a 2-year-old who loves the color red, is told a story about a boy named Andy. In the story, Andy loves the color blue. When Trevor is asked to choose the color crayon that Andy would likely choose when drawing a picture, Trevor will MOST likely

Young children have difficulty understanding that plants are alive because children equate being alive with

Do infants have any understanding of number? Give an example to support your answer. Are infants able to perform simple arithmetic ? Discuss the evidence supporting the claim that they can. What is an alternative explanation to this evidence?

The study examining infants' ability to do simple arithmetic that showed infants one or two dolls and then either added or subtracted a doll from behind a screen demonstrated that infants were surprised in which of these scenarios? Scenario A: A doll is placed behind a screen where another doll was initially present, and lowering of the screen reveals a single doll. Scenario B: A doll is removed from behind a screen where two dolls were initially present, and lowering of the screen reveals a single doll. Scenario C: A doll is placed behind a screen where another doll was initially present, and lowering of the screen reveals two dolls. Scenario D: A doll is removed from behind a screen where two dolls were initially present, and lowering of the screen reveals two dolls.

When 7-year-old Jacob is asked why giraffes came to exist, he is MOST likely to use _____ in his explanation.

Explain how Erica, a young child, forms a category hierarchy of a tree.

Describe the notion of a theory of mind module.

The parents of Elizabeth, a 2-year-old, are trying to teach her what hammers are. Which action would be MOST likely to help her learn this new category?

Make-believe activities in which children create new symbolic relations, acting as if they were in a situation different from their actual one, is called

A hypothesized brain mechanism devoted to understanding other human beings is referred to as

The mutual understanding that people share during communication is known as

Children typically succeed on false-belief problems by the age of _____ years.

Which influence is NOT cited by empiricists when explaining the development of preschoolers' theory of mind from age 3 to age 5?

Which level of category hierarchies is the MOST specific?

Empiricists would consider which finding to be evidence for their position on the development of numerical perception?

Wayne is using a _____. This is an example of an object substitution.

The understanding that any set of discrete objects or events can be counted represents