Exam 7: Section 2: Conceptual Development

The study that compared the spatial skills of Aboriginal children growing up in the Australian desert with those of their White peers growing up in cities demonstrated the importance of:

Which statement would BEST support the nativists' view of causal reasoning?

Impairments in visual information processing in children who have had cataract surgery give evidence for which of the following?

Nativists and empiricists agree on all of these statements EXCEPT:

The parents of Elizabeth, a 2-year-old, are trying to teach her what hammers are. Which action would be MOST likely to help her learn this new category?

Which list is an example of a category hierarchy?

Which of the following is evidence that a 12-month-old child understands the properties of living and nonliving things?

Children can typically count up to 10 by what age?

On false-belief problems, children who do not yet have a complete understanding of the relation between their own beliefs and others' beliefs:

Kathryn, a 4-year-old child, is told a story about a baby turtle who is raised by a mommy and a daddy giraffe. When asked what the turtle will grow up to be, Kathryn is MOST likely to say a:

Harry, a 3-year-old, is shown a raisin box and then is shown that the box contains pennies. If asked what he had thought the box contained before being shown its true contents, Harry will MOST likely say he had thought it contained:

A theory of _____ is NOT one of the informal theories proposed by Wellman and Gelman.

Which statement is true of informal theories?

Amelia, a 5-year-old, is told a story about a girl named Brenda. Brenda is looking for her favourite doll. Although Brenda thinks the doll is under the bed, it really is in the kitchen cabinet. When Amelia is asked where Brenda will look for her doll, Amelia will MOST likely predict that Brenda will look in which location(s)?

Which list places children's understandings in a typical developmental progression?

Which question would a preschooler be LEAST likely to ask about a tractor trailer?

Research demonstrating infants' habituation to a constant pattern was concerned with their knowledge of:

Children's early categories correspond most closely to the categories that adults consider:

Which concept is NOT at the center of naïve psychology?

Which level of category hierarchies is the most specific?