Exam 7: Conceptual Development

On which statement would nativists and empiricists NOT agree?

The study that examined kindergartners' ability to point to various locations in their classroom while imagining a walk from their seat to the teacher's chair demonstrated that kindergarten children:

When surgery has restored sight to people who were born either blind or with severely impaired vision, they are unable to use visual information to represent space as well as those who never experienced impaired vision. This finding lends support to the role that _____ plays in spatial abilities.

Trisha, who is 3 years old, views an event in which no cause is visible. She is likely to:

Jane, an 18-month-old, is pretending to put on makeup using a small block as her lipstick. Jane is:

Children's psychological understanding begins to emerge by about what age?

Which error is common among 8-year-olds?

On the subject of healing, preschoolers believe that:

Which statement about the development of children''s ability to categorize objects based on appearance is TRUE?

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:

The MOST basic sense of time is:

Emily, a 7-month-old infant, is sitting on the floor in a nearly empty room. On each side of her is a television screen. Every 10 seconds, an interesting picture appears on the screen on her left. The screen on her right remains blank. Emily is then rotated so that the screen that has been showing the interesting pictures is now on her right. Where will Emily look in anticipation of the interesting picture?

Aidan, a 4-year-old child, is told a story about a girl who wants to grow to be taller than her daddy, but she is still a young girl. When asked if the girl will get her wish, Aidan is MOST likely to:

Research has suggested that pretend play and sociodramatic play: