Exam 45: Cognitive Development

Hierarchical classification refers to the ability to __________.

Using hierarchical classification skills, older children with diabetes can learn to sort food groups and exchanges for their diets.

A child's ability to comprehend that the amount of juice a glass holds depends on both its height and its width is a result of __________.

__________ is characterized by decreasing centration, reversibility of a mental sequence, set identity, conservation of physical properties, classification skills, and an inability to think abstractly.

Which of the following is an example of set identity?

Concrete thinking develops later than abstract thinking.

Decreasing centration, reversibility of a sequence, and set identity contribute to a concrete thinker's ability to __________.

As concrete thinkers, middle-aged children can think through a sequence of actions in their minds, and then reverse it to arrive back where they started.

Matrix classification skills are more complex than hierarchical classification.

Which of the following enable school-aged children to understand multiplication and division in math?

If 8-year-old Billy understands that having three collies and four poodles results in having more total dogs than poodles, what ability has he developed?