Exam 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy

What is the term that Piaget used to explain the process by which people understand an experience in terms of their current stage of cognitive development and way of thinking?

Baby Todd's mother notices that he makes a variety of sounds including cooing,crying,gurgling,and murmuring along with facial expressions,gestures,imitation,and other nonlinguistic means.Baby Todd is demonstrating

What is the term for the process by which information is initially recorded,stored,and retrieved?

Five-year-old Alex and his mother visited the zoo.While they were there,Alex's mother took him to see the squirrel exhibit.Alex saw many different types of squirrels,but when he saw a flying squirrel glide from one branch to the next,he pointed and said,"A bird with a tail." Considering Piaget's work,Alex is demonstrating an example of

In Piaget's view,a 4-month-old baby that consistently tries to put toys in its mouth,and bangs and throws objects around,is categorized as a difficult baby.

Piaget indicated infants should be provided with opportunities to explore the world.To accomplish this task,Piaget would suggest that

Baby Alexander makes minor changes in his schemes each time his environment provides him with a new experience.This is the process of

What is the term for the smallest language unit that has meaning?

Piaget believed that the earliest schemes are limited to ________ that we have when we are born.

The systematic,meaningful arrangement of symbols,which provides the basis for communication,is called

Piaget's Substage 6: Beginnings of thought occur for children in the age range of

A baby who shakes her rattle in different ways to see how the sound changes is demonstrating

What is the term for the overly broad use of words,overgeneralizing their meaning?

Piaget's theory of development assumed that all children pass through a series of ____ universal stages in a fixed order from birth to adolescence.These are ______.

Baby Dionne is playing in her crib and reaches to pull back a blanket that is partially covering the teddy bear that she wants to play with.Piaget would say that this is an example of

By the age of two,most children can use two-word sentences and __________ speech where non-critical words of a sentence are left out.

Piaget used the term _______ to describe changes in existing ways of thinking that occur in response to encounters with new stimuli or events.

Who was the Swiss psychologist who felt that infants learn according to the formula,"action = knowledge"?

Rebecca wants her baby to stop playing and come across the room to her.Rebecca uses a short phrase such as "Come to Mommy" to prompt her baby.This is an example of

Piaget's Substage 4: Coordination of secondary circular reactions stage occurs for infants in the age range of