Exam 26: Cognitive Development

An infant's ability to comprehend that one event leads to another relates to what sensorimotor period accomplishment?

One method of studying infant cognition involves relying on an infants' inborn tendency to pay attention to a novel stimulus and then to habituate to it.

Recall memory, in which visual cues are not used to remember something, improves during the second half of the first year, a period of considerable brain development.

Which of the following function like blueprints that allow infants to organize and adapt to their world?

According to Piaget, infants are unlikely to search for an object if it disappears from view during which stage?

__________, in which visual cues are not used to remember something, improves during the second half of the first year, a period of considerable brain development

Long before babies begin to crawl, they make mental maps of their surroundings and remember where furniture should be.

Which of the following statements is NOT true about Piaget's theories of object permanence?

Piaget's theory has been challenged by other researchers, who found that infants develop some cognitive abilities earlier than Piaget thought.

At what substage of Piaget's sensorimotor period do infants use their bodies to act on the physical environment, repeating actions because they produce a desired effect?

An infant's ability to comprehend that objects exist when out of sight relates to what sensorimotor period accomplishment?