Exam 6: Cognitive Development: Piagetian, Core Knowledge, and Vygotskian Perspectives

Opportunities to seriate objects, to learn about order relations, and to remember the parts of complex problems are probably responsible for

The capacity for __________ distinguishes the formal operational stage from the concrete operational stage.

In one study, 2½-year-olds were unable to use a scale model of a room to find a toy hidden in the room that the model represented. This is because young preschoolers have difficulty with

Vygotsky regarded make-believe play as a major source of cognitive development because it __________ in which children advance themselves.

Melissa and Anjay are both 12 years old. Melissa is from the United States, and Anjay is from India. When asked to draw a map of their neighborhood, Melissa's map will show __________ than Anjay's map.

As a result of adolescents' ability to engage in __________, they often construct grand visions of a perfect world that are at odds with adults' more realistic views.

Which of the following statements provides support for the core knowledge perspective?

Baby Rina, who is still developing the expertise at motor skills necessary for the search task, is more likely to make the A-not-B search error because

Miss Caroline, a teacher who uses Piagetian principles in her classroom,

Piaget believed that the major benefit of make-believe play during the preoperational stage is to

In Piaget's theory, children move through four stages

Some researchers believe that before the end of the first year, babies undergo a fundamental shift from a(n) __________ basis to a(n) __________ basis for constructing categories

Vygotsky believed that learning takes place

When 4-year-old Leela wished for her grandmother to come and visit, and the very next day her grandmother arrived at Leela's house, Leela believed it was

Children's ability to draw a map of a large-scale space improves with age due to

Baby Henry enters Piaget's Substage 4 of the sensorimotor period when his schemes

Vygotsky emphasized __________ for preschool children, and then shifting to __________ once formal schooling begins.

According to Vygotsky, infants are endowed with basic perceptual, attention, and memory capacities that they share with other animals. These develop during the first two years through

Research on private speech suggests that young children

Initially, infants respond to videos of people