Exam 6: Cognitive Developmental Approaches

The symbolic function substage and the intuitive thought substage are substages of ________ thought.

Identify and describe 3 of the 6 ways that Piaget has contributed to the field of education.

What sensorimotor substage occurs between 4 and 8 months of age?

The imaginary audience and the personal fable are two parts of

The main task during the sensorimotor stage involves

According to current research on Piaget's ideas on formal operational thought,which one of the following statements is not addressed?

Six-month-old Claude kicks his crib really hard,causing the mobile above his head to shake.Fascinated by this reaction,he continues to kick his crib.Which substage of sensorimotor thought is Claude in?

________________________ is the heightened self-consciousness of adolescents,which is reflected in the belief that others are as interested in them as the adolescents are in themselves.

Three-year-old Mary says,"The door made me mad; it pushed my thumb." She is demonstrating

Whose entire conversational interaction with an adult would likely consist of the question "Why?"

Intentionality is achieved in the sensorimotor substage of

Assimilation (incorporating new information into existing knowledge)_____________ the initial development of formal operational thought,and these thinkers perceive the world subjectively and idealistically.

When assessing the cognitive abilities of children,Dr.Jones finds that Ralph has the ability to conserve length but is still fooled by conservation of mass tasks.As a Piagetian,which term would Dr.Jones use to describe this phenomenon?

The A-not-B error is best described as an object permanence concept where

In the fourth sensorimotor substage,coordination of secondary circular reactions,actions are more outwardly directed.In what age range would you expect the baby to be?

_____________________ is part of the _________________ stage indicated by focusing,or centring,attention on one characteristic to the exclusion of all others.

While playing with some candy,3-year-old Ruth places five chocolate pieces in one row and another five pieces in an identical row.She then accidentally pushes the end piece of candy in row one away from the rest.After staring at this new "longer" row,she decides to eat it because,"it now has more candy." Ruth's thinking is explained as the result of the inability to conserve

While playing hide-and-seek with her brother,2-year-old Tammy hid her face behind a pillow,although she remained in plain view.This illustrates what limitation of preoperational thought?

Which statement is not a criticism of Vygotsky's theory?

Conservation and classification are accomplishments of what Piagetian stage of cognitive development?