Exam 8: Cognitive Development

Children were more successful at giving verbal direction to other children if:

Joyce wants to encourage play in the zone of proximal development for her nephew. Which present should she get him?

Describe Piaget's test of logical inference and how children in the preoperational period respond to it.

An educational technique in which children work in small groups to solve problems or complete tasks is known as:

Most children who have language delays in early childhood will outgrow these delays without intervention in elementary school.

According to Piaget, when can children pass the Three Mountain Task?

Children are more likely to remember events that occur regularly.

How do 3-year-olds typically respond to Piaget's classic test of conservation of liquid?

According to Piaget, children in the preoperational period are unable to process information within a ordered series. This is known as:

Adults who learned English as a second language make fewer grammatical errors if they learned English:

Preschool listeners:

In preschool, children change their language according to their environment in all of the following examples, except:

Preschool children with imaginary companions are reported to be:

Throughout the preschool period, most children learn:

Bobby's mom asks him what he ate for lunch at school. He told her he ate a hot dog. This is an example of:

Increasing ability to use language is a reflection is indicative of their growing:

The ability to identify an object, person, or quality that was encountered before is known as:

The distance between what children can do independently and what they can do with assistance is known as:

Although Piaget believes that children develop skills in stages, he recognized that these skills may be applied in different settings at different time. He called this:

Children can do better on recall tasks if: