Exam 2: Cognitive and Linguistic Development

Mary Jane is given her choice of two Hershey bars, one of which has been broken into four pieces.She chooses the broken candy bar, believing that it has more candy.Mary Jane is showing a lack of _______, indicating that she has not yet completed the transition to the _________ stage of development.

Which approach appears to be most effective for teaching English speakers a second language?

Mr.Davis asks his third graders to conduct experiments to examine the effects of water, sunlight, and type of soil on growing sunflowers.He tells them, "I want you to find out which of these three things-water, sunlight, and soil-affect how well sunflowers grow." Here are lots of sunflower seeds, lots of paper cups to grow them in, and two different types of soil.You can give your growing plants lots of sunlight by putting them on the shelf by the window, or you can grow them in a shadier place on the bookshelf behind my desk.And here's a measuring cup you can use to measure the amount of water you give them each day." Mr.Davis is assuming his third graders can do at least two things that, from Piaget's perspective, they probably cannot do.What two crucial abilities necessary for conducting appropriate experiments do his students probably not yet have? Justify your answer in a short paragraph.

The term holophrastic refers to:

Which strategy is most likely to be effective in promoting semantic development?

Which one of the following best illustrates Piaget's concept of accommodation?

Mr.Lupart is assessing his students' needs in relation to the curriculum to ensure that each is challenged at their level.What is Mr.Lupart trying to establish?

The processes of assimilation and accommodation both involve:

Which one of the following is not a general theme that characterizes cognitive and linguistic development?

Which one of the following best exemplifies Piaget's notion of disequilibrium?

Three of the following aspects of language development appear during the elementary school years or even earlier.Which one are we not likely to see until students are in junior high or high school?

Which one of the following statements reflects a concern about the separation and control of variables?

What is the key distinction between an apprenticeship and a cognitive apprenticeship?

Ms.Stevens and her fourth graders have been growing sunflowers under various conditions-they have grown sunflowers in different kinds of soil, with different amounts of water, and in varying degrees of sunlight.Below are four statements that Ms.Stevens makes related to the sunflowers.Which one is most consistent with the idea of a cognitive apprenticeship?

Miranda interacts with her toys when they are in view, but seems to completely forget about them when they are not near.Which of Piaget's stages of cognitive development is Miranda demonstrating?

Some students with special needs have advanced cognitive and linguistic development in comparison to their classmates.Which one of the following characteristics are we least likely to observe with regard to these students?

Considering Piaget's theory of cognitive development, we would expect a student in the concrete operational stage to have the greatest difficulty with which one of the following questions?