Exam 9: Cognitive Development in Early Childhood

__________ is part of every logical operation.

Two-year-old Camden finds only one of her shoes. She says, "I need two shoes. I have two foots!" Camden's error is an example of

Piaget believed that through __________, young children practice and strengthen newly acquired representational schemes.

For Piaget, the most fundamental deficiency of preoperational thinking is

Four-year-old Maria uses shorter, simpler expressions when interacting with her 2-year-old brother. This example suggests that Piaget may have

By age 3½, __________ questions make up about half of children's questions.

After a trip to the supermarket, Raj asks his daughter, "Do you remember the supermarket? What did we do at the supermarket? What food did we buy at the supermarket?" Raj is using a(n) __________ style to elicit his daughter's autobiographical memory.

Four-year-old Jack is a snack helper. He counts five children at his table and then retrieves five milk cartons. Jack is displaying an understanding of

How are a Piagetian and Vygotskian classroom similar? How do they differ?

Which of the following statements about preschoolers' computer use is true?

Vygotsky's theory stresses the __________ of cognitive development.

List strategies for supporting emergent literacy in early childhood, and explain why each strategy is useful.

Three-year-old Stacy pretends to make a grocery list while in the car on the way to the grocery store. This activity reflects Stacy's

After a field trip to the museum, Leslie asks her son, "What was the first thing we did? Why weren't the trains moving? I thought that the pink airplane was really big. What did you think?" Leslie is using a(n) __________ style to elicit her son's autobiographical memory.

Elisabeth is a preschooler who spends much of her time in sociodramatic play. She is likely to be seen as __________ by observers than peers who do not participate in sociodramatic play.

Eighteen-month-old Jazmin is offered sets of animal crackers. Each set contains 1, 2, or 4 crackers. Jazmin consistently picks the set with the most pieces, displaying a beginning grasp of

Lydia acts out her __________ of putting her baby brother to bed when she plays with her doll.

Piaget believed that sensorimotor activity leads to

While filling in a connect-the-dots page, Amir hesitated. His father asked him, "What comes after 7? Start counting from 1 and see if that helps you remember." Amir recited the numbers and remembered that 8 comes after 7. This is an example of

Even preschoolers with good language skills recall poorly because they are not skilled at using