Exam 2: Cognitive and Language Development

Mr. Epstein is showing the class a picture of a tiger. Ally, one of his students, tells him that she has one of these animals at home. He tries to explain to her that she must have a cat, not a tiger. She insists that it is a tiger and that she got him at the pet store last month. According to Piaget, what is the teacher trying to do?

Piaget's stages of cognitive development are an example of discontinuity in development in which the individual undergoes a qualitative change when progressing from one stage to the next.

According to Piaget, language plays a major role in influencing a child's cognitive development.

Since the brain has plasticity, or the ability to change, which of the following learning environments is most likely to stimulate brain development?

Discuss the role of using synaptic connections.

Sarah says to her teacher, "Mrs. White, today recess to go want don't I!" Mrs. White smiles and says, "It's okay if you don't want to go to recess today." According to language development, what is Sarah having a problem with:

Vygotsky believed that private speech represents an early transition in becoming more socially communicative.

Language is highly ordered and organized according to which systems of rules?

Louis receives a new soccer ball for his birthday. His parents notice that Louis does not try to kick the ball but instead dribbles it in the same way he dribbles his basketball. Louis's dribbling of the new ball reflects Piaget's concept of: