Exam 8: Cognitive Development: Piagets Theory, Cases Neo-Piagetian Theory, and Vygotskys Sociocultural Viewpoint

According to Piaget, what form of reasoning first emerges during the formal operational period?

How does Case explain the Piagetian processes of assimilation and accommodation? How has his perspective expanded our understanding of Piaget's model of development?

Sylvia is playing with a small stuffed dog when it falls and rolls under her crib.She does not seem particularly distressed, and she does not search for the lost toy.According to Piaget, what accounts for Sylvia's behaviour in response to this event?

Which statement best summarizes Meltzoff's research on deferred imitation?

According to Vygotsky, what does the term zone of proximal development refer to?

One criticism of Piaget is that he treated children as if they were scientists working in isolation.This criticism relates to which aspect of Piaget's theory?

Which statement best summarizes the findings of contemporary research regarding Piaget's view of the thought processes of preoperational children?

Which statement best characterizes thought during the preoperational period?

Suppose that you are a Grade 1 teacher and notice that many of the children in your class sometimes talk aloud to themselves when they do arithmetic or other schoolwork.You wonder whether you should discourage these mutterings.Discuss how these mutterings might be viewed from Vygotsky's viewpoint and in light of recent research findings.

Piaget believed that intellectual development occurs in a fixed sequence.Which factor(s) did he base this belief on?

Gerald's dad is upset over some bad news and starts to cry.Five-year-old Gerald quickly brings over his favourite teddy bear for his dad to hold and tells his dad that he will feel better if he hugs "teddy." What Piagetian concept does this child-parent interaction illustrate?

Language is an obvious form of symbolism that flourishes during the preoperational period.What is their other form of symbolism during that period?

Identify the two processes involved in adaptation, and provide examples that illustrate each process.

According to Piaget, between what ages does the preoperational stage of development occur?

Six-year-old Bastien thought all dogs were big like his dog until he saw his friend's new Chihuahua.What does the change in Bastien's understanding of dogs illustrate?

Four-year-old Hope thought at first that her next-door neighbour's new pet rabbit was a kitten until she realized that it hopped instead of walked and it didn't purr at all.Hope then realized this was not a kitten but was a rabbit.How would Piaget explain Hope's understanding of her neighbour's pet?

Richard has a box of 10 different-sized buttons, and he is not yet able to sort them in order of largest to smallest.Based on Piaget's theory, what has Richard failed to develop?

Constructing mental images is a prominent feature of which aspect of sensorimotor intelligence?

What is the Piagetian term for an organized pattern of thought or action that the child constructs to make sense of his or her experience?

Which of the following is a way that Piaget has contributed to the field of human development?