Exam 6: B: Theories of Cognitive Development

Long-term memory

Which of the following is TRUE concerning infants' naïve theories of physics?

Compared to adults, when children perform complex tasks they

Piaget used ________ experiments to see whether children realized that characteristics of objects remained the same despite changes in physical appearance.

Core knowledge views cognitive development as an innate capability to easily acquire knowledge in specialized domains of evolutionary importance such as

Infants' naïve theory of physics leads them to believe that

You clench your fist, rapidly open your hand, then rapidly re-clench your fist. After you re-clench your fist, you momentarily see an image of your fingers extended. That image is stored in

Sensory memory

When preoperational children are asked to identify different perspectives of model mountains on a table, which of the following characteristics of preoperational thought do they demonstrate?

Centration is characterized by

Cognitive activities that require very little effort are referred to as

When infants begin using ________, they are then able to mentally anticipate consequences rather than having to perform them.

________ prevent(s) task-irrelevant information from entering working memory.

When concrete operational and formal operational thinkers are asked to combine a number of clear liquids to produce a blue liquid

Which of the following would violate the principles of Piaget's theory?

________ propose(s) distinctive domains of knowledge, some of which are acquired very early in life.

The concepts of scaffolding, private speech, and the zone of proximal development are most closely associated with

During Piaget's ________ stage, children begin using mental operations to solve problems.

Skills that are automatic require

Compared to younger children, older children