Exam 6: Cognitive Development: Piagets Theory and Vygotskys Sociocultural Viewpoint

A child knows that Texas is bigger than Utah, and that Utah is bigger than Maine. The child shows ____ by saying that Texas is bigger than Maine.

____ refers to the activity of knowing and acquiring knowledge.

ONTOGENY is to PHYLOGENY as ____ is to ____.

In her experiment, Rheta DeVries was able to demonstrate that children under the age of three are not able to distinguish between appearance and reality when she presented them with a masked cat. The inability of young children to make this distinction can be attributed to

"Adaptation" has many varied meanings, but to Piaget, it meant

Having accurate costumes for imaginary roles would be a special concern for children engaged in ____ play.

Snow White loses a small doll but does not search for the toy. Snow White's actions suggest that she has not yet acquired

The goal of identity training for preschoolers is to

Trace the development of object permanence originally outlined by Piaget.

Of Piaget's four cognitive stages, the ____ stage is most strongly dependent on schooling.

In a beaker-pouring test of liquid volume conservation, preschoolers don't achieve conservation because they

To pass an object, an infant combines one hand's "opening scheme" with the other hand's "grasping" scheme. This illustrates Piaget's principle of

The dual representation principle means that the child

"If it walks, talks, and looks like a duck, then it is a duck." This statement will make good sense to a young preschooler who has not yet mastered

Four-year-old Britney mistakes her neighbor's new pet rabbit for a kitten. Britney's error illustrates the Piagetian process of

John and Marsha both teach fourth grade. Marsha applies cooperative learning, while John favors independent discovery-based activities.

Teenagers who study vocational subjects in high school will ____ classmates who major in abstract academic subjects.

Identify the correct developmental sequence for speech, from earliest to latest, according to Lev Vygotsky's sociocultural theory:

Describe the three major acquisitions that mark the culmination of the sensorimotor period. What is common to all three acquisitions?

____ refers to children's changes in mental abilities over their lifetime.