Deck 32: Cognitive Development I

Question 1

Cause by association __________ is explained in a circular fashion, without distinguishing between cause and effect.

A) conservation
B) representation
C) centration
D) causality

Answer 1

D

Question 2

__________ refers to the ability to focus on only one aspect of something at a time.

A) Classification
B) Causality
C) Representation
D) Centration

Answer 2

D

Question 3

________ is initially based on saliency-that is, what is obvious and what appeals at the time.

A) Representation
B) Conservation
C) Classification
D) Centration

Answer 3

C

Question 4

__________ refers to the ability to understand that something remains the same even if its appearance is altered and nothing was seen to be taken away or added.

A) Centration
B) Conservation
C) Classification
D) Centration

Question 5

Preschool children are said to be ___________ because they deal with what appears to be true.

A) conservation bound
B) centration bound
C) causality bound
D) perceptually bound

Question 6

____________ is recognizing that liquids take the form of their containers.

A) Conservation of quantity
B) Conservation of mass and/or length
C) Conservation of number
D) Conservation of perception

Question 7

Preschoolers think that a ball of Play-Doh gets bigger when it is rolled into a snake. This is an example of __________.

A) conservation of quantity
B) conservation of mass and/or length
C) conservation of number
D) conservation of perception

Question 8

Preoperational thinking is referred to as "magical," meaning that children's ideas about how the world works can be quite fanciful and are not grounded in the principles of physics.

Question 9

Preschoolers think about things in ways that infants and toddlers do not; they represent ideas in their minds (representation).

Question 10

Preschoolers do not recognize that physical events have explanations and do not attempt to figure things out.

Question 11

By kindergarten, children begin to understand classification and class inclusion.