Exam 4: Theories of Cognitive Development

Which term does NOT identify one of Piaget's stages?

Define and describe the features of guided participation and explain why it is a core component of the sociocultural perspective. Use an example to illustrate the features.

Research following a dynamic-systems perspective has demonstrated that the A-not-B error appears to be caused by

Which adjective does NOT describe a characteristic of formal operational thought?

Miguel is sitting in his highchair at breakfast time. As if to drive his parents crazy, Miguel picks up each and every piece of food, from mushy peaches to crunchy Cheerios, and drops it onto the floor. Sometimes he drops just one piece, and sometimes he drops multiple pieces simultaneously, as though he wants to see whether there is a difference in the result. As he drops each piece, he carefully watches as it hits the floor. According to Piaget, Miguel is MOST likely to be at what age?

Mark is clearly in Piaget's _____ stage of cognitive development. He can solve conservation problems correctly.

The term "conservation concept" refers to the idea that

Research demonstrating that playing numerical board games increases preschoolers' numerical knowledge provides support for

Piaget believed that infants develop the concept of object permanence at approximately _____ months.

The perspective that infants have substantial innate knowledge of evolutionarily important domains is referred to as

According to core-knowledge theorists, children do NOT form naïve theories of

Arden is sitting in a tree and has a perfect view of his twin brother George digging a hole and burying a treasure. A few weeks later, the boys want to dig up the buried treasure, but leaves are covering the area, making it impossible to see the loosened dirt where George dug the hole. According to the dynamic-systems perspective, which brother is more likely to remember where the treasure is?

Joint attention begins in

Individual variability in the development of walking would be most interesting to psychologists within which perspective?

Task analysis refers to

Vygotsky's theory is a type of _____ theory.

The best definition of centration is

The child as scientist is to _____ theory as the child as well-adapted product of evolution is to _____ theory.

The understanding that objects continue to exist even when they are out of view is referred to as object

Kevin and his mother are playing with a squeaky toy. Kevin's mother squeezes the toy in front of him and then hides it under a blanket. Kevin has fun finding the toy under the blanket and then giving it back to his mother. After several rounds of this game, Kevin's mother hides the toy behind a pillow instead of under the blanket. Rather than looking behind the pillow, however, Kevin lifts the blanket to look for the toy. What age is Kevin MOST likely to be?