Exam 6: Cognitive Developmental Approaches

Two-year-old Ryan has just begun to "pretend" by imagining things that aren't real.The best assessment of this ability is that Ryan

Piaget's sensorimotor substage of simple reflexes occurs

According to Vygotsky,thoughts are best conceptualized as

When an infant understands that objects and events continue to exist even when they cannot be seen,heard,or touched,the infant has achieved

The preoperational stage extends from approximately

Five-year-old Marge watches other children playing in a sandlot.At first she only understands swinging at the ball with a bat.Then she learns about running,catching,and pitching.Eventually,Marge develops a functional cognitive system called "playing baseball." According to Piaget,Marge has achieved __________ of baseball information.

Assimilation is to accommodation as

Piaget argued that movement from one stage of thought to the next was triggered by

According to Vygotsky,scaffolding is

A scheme is best thought of as a

All but which one of the following are ways that Vygotsky's theory can be incorporated into the classroom?

Who would be most likely to argue that the speech produced by 3-year-old Gina is socially based and is a main guide of her behaviour?

If an infant in the coordination of secondary circular reactions substage of sensorimotor development manipulates a stick in order to bring a desired toy within reach or knocks over one block to reach and play with another one,this would be an example of

While strolling through the zoo with his mother,5-year-old Tim sees a penguin for the first time.He stares at the animal for a while and then tells his mother,"See the wings and beak,that's just some kind of bird." From a Piagetian perspective,Tim's behaviour is best explained by

_____________________________ involves the ability to logically combine relations to understand certain conclusions.

Which of the following is not a characteristic of preoperational thought?

When 6-year-old Megan spills a glass of pop,she looks down and realizes that the seemingly huge amount of liquid would actually fit back into her small glass.Megan's conclusion provides an excellent example of

What is the correct developmental sequence of Piaget's stages of cognitive development?

According to Piaget,passing what test is a sign that children are at the concrete operational stage?

Piaget's sensorimotor substage of internalization of schemes occurs between ________ months of age.