Exam 2: Cognitive and Motor Development

The highest stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development is the concrete operational stage.

Adaptation, according to Piaget, is the adjusting to demands of the environment and the intellectualizing of that adjustment through two complimentary acts, assimilation and accommodation.

What do the following sentences refer to : -an ability to realize that certain properties of a substance remain unchanged when its appearance is rearranged in a superficial way.

The concrete operational stage of cognitive development is which of Piaget's stages?

What do the following sentences refer to : -Piaget's first stage of cognitive development; it lasts for the first two years of life and is characterized by knowing and thinking emerging as a result of the child's actions.

What do the following sentences refer to : -Piaget's third major stage of cognitive development; it lasts for approximately four years and is characterized by the individual's enhanced ability to decenter attention.

Preoperational stage development consists of identifiable substages, including which of the following?

What do the following sentences refer to : -a possible fifth stage of cognitive development that is characterized by discovering new questions, not just dealing with larger quantities of information.

What do the following sentences refer to : -a term used to refer to those movements that are initiated by an electrical impulse from the higher brain centers like the motor cortex.

The preoperational stage of development occurs in which age range?

Postformal operations, according to Berger and the textbook, may involve which of the following?

In a meta-analysis on athletes and cognitive performance, athletes were found to perform better on some cognitive measures, especially if:

What do the following sentences refer to : -awareness of factual information.

Which of Piaget's stages of cognitive development has substages of primary circular reactions, tertiary circular reactions, and secondary schemata?

What do the following sentences refer to : -the cognitive ability to consider self and an object in simple situations in the past, present, and future, allowing contemplation of activities.

In general, research on physical activity and well-being has determined:

What do the following sentences refer to : -a process by which children attempt to interpret new experiences based on based on their present interpretation of the world.

What is the major accomplishment of the formal operational stage?

Executive function, as it relates to cognition, is the control, management, and regulation of cognitive processes to perform goal directed tasks.

The stage in Piaget's theory that emphasizes children's limitations rather than their attributes is formal operations.