Exam 7: Cognitive Development

When a young child grasps a toy, it is part of his experience and is real to him, but when he is not holding the toy, it doesn't exist for him anymore. Piaget says this is because young children do not have

Paying attention to certain things while tuning out others is the process of _____________ and maintaining focus over time is the process of ______________.

When a young infant repeats a reflexive action because the results are pleasurable, Piaget called this motor pattern a

A characteristic of the preoperational stage of cognitive development is egocentrism which means that children in this stage

If you showed a 7-year-old child six blue wooden blocks and 4 white wooden block and asked the child "Are there more blue blocks or more wooden blocks?" you would be testing the child's ability to

False memories for events that did not really happen are

One of the basic principles in Piaget's theory of cognitive development is that

When an adolescent can solve a complex problem by first formulating hypotheses and then testing those hypotheses in a systematic and logical way, the adolescent is engaging in

Compared to older adolescents and adults, younger adolescents are more likely to

Researchers who have been critical of the ages that Piaget attached to each of the stages in his theory of cognitive development have claimed that

Critics of Piaget's theory of cognitive development have claimed that the stages he proposed do not really exist as distinct entities.

In Piaget's theory, when you need to change the way you think about something in order to understand a new experience, you are engaging in the process of

the ability of the brain to coordinate attention and memory and control behavioral responses for the purpose of attaining a certain goal is called

Research has shown that infants and toddlers can remember something they have learned for weeks but

In Vygotsky's theory, private speech is

The major cognitive accomplishment during the preoperational stage is

When we encounter a new experience that does not fit into any of our cognitive schemes, Piaget would say that

As adolescents become able to think about broad abstract concepts, it may

Describe the two ways in which adolescents demonstrate egocentrism according to David Elkind.

Create a classroom based upon principles set out in Piaget's theory. How would the classroom be different if it was run according to Vygotsky's ideas?