Deck 26: Cognitive Development

Question 1

Which of the following function like blueprints that allow infants to organize and adapt to their world?

A) Cognitive structures
B) Egocentrism
C) Primary circular reactions
D) Causality

Answer 1

A

Question 2

An infant's ability to comprehend that one event leads to another relates to what sensorimotor period accomplishment?

A) Time
B) Causality
C) Object permanence
D) Spatial relationships

Answer 2

B

Question 3

At what substage of Piaget's sensorimotor period do infants use their bodies to act on the physical environment, repeating actions because they produce a desired effect?

A) Substage 2: primary circular reactions
B) Substage 5: tertiary circular reactions
C) Substage 3: secondary circular reactions
D) Substage 4: coordination of secondary circular reactions

Answer 3

C

Question 4

According to Piaget, infants are unlikely to search for an object if it disappears from view during which stage?

A) Substage 1
B) Substage 2
C) Substage 3
D) Substages 1 and 2

Question 5

An infant's ability to comprehend that objects exist when out of sight relates to what sensorimotor period accomplishment?

A) Time
B) Causality
C) Object performance
D) Spatial relationships

Question 6

__________, in which visual cues are not used to remember something, improves during the second half of the first year, a period of considerable brain development

A) Recall memory
B) Egocentrism
C) Object permanence
D) Primary circular reactions

Question 7

Which of the following statements is NOT true about Piaget's theories of object permanence?

A) Piaget thought that infants did not have object permanence until at least 18 months.
B) Piaget's tests for object permanence required infants to physically search for objects he had hidden.
C) Piaget considered the role that neurological development played in infants' acquisition of object permanence.
D) Piaget did not consider the role that memory played in infants' acquisition of object permanence.

Question 8

One method of studying infant cognition involves relying on an infants' inborn tendency to pay attention to a novel stimulus and then to habituate to it.

Question 9

Recall memory, in which visual cues are not used to remember something, improves during the second half of the first year, a period of considerable brain development.

Question 10

Long before babies begin to crawl, they make mental maps of their surroundings and remember where furniture should be.

Question 11

Piaget's theory has been challenged by other researchers, who found that infants develop some cognitive abilities earlier than Piaget thought.