Question 1

Concrete operational thinking is identical to adult thinking in that children are able to think abstractly and hypothetically for the first time.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Which infant is using mental symbols?

Accepted Answer

A) Eric,who is kicking his leg over and over 
B) Dan,who is squeezing different toys to see if they squeak 
C) Roger,who is climbing up on a chair to reach a toy on a shelf 
D) Peter,who is saying "Vrrrrroooommm!" and moving his hand like a car

Question 3

Which of the following is NOT true of working memory?

Accepted Answer

A) It stores information. 
B) It is a permanent storehouse. 
C) It holds "software" and "data." 
D) It is analogous to computer RAM.

Question 4

Your friend Andre is the father of a 12-month-old daughter,Brooke.Mealtime has become a very frustrating time for Andre because Brooke repeatedly pushes her sippy cup and different foods that she is eating off the high chair and onto the floor.The first time that she did this it appeared to Andre that it was an accident but now he is convinced that his daughter is deliberately pushing her cup and food onto the floor to annoy him.Based on what you know about infants being active experimenters,what can you tell Andre that might make him feel better?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Your friend Andre is the father of...

Question 5

Long-term memory

Accepted Answer

A) is a permanent storehouse of information. 
B) is like a computer's random-access memory (RAM). 
C) holds raw,unanalyzed information. 
D) is the site of ongoing cognitive activity.

Question 6

Long-term memory is like a computer's hard drive,a fairly permanent storehouse of programs and data.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

The zone of proximal development refers to

Accepted Answer

A) the highest level of achievement a child can reach by himself. 
B) the difference between what a child can do with and without help. 
C) a teaching style that matches the amount of assistance to the learner's need. 
D) comments not intended for others but intended to help children regulate their own behaviour.

Question 8

Professor Garrett tells his class,"Children's cognition develops continuously and gradually.There are no abrupt changes in thought.There are no distinct stages of cognitive development." Professor Garrett sounds most like

Accepted Answer

A) an information-processing theorist. 
B) Piaget. 
C) Kohlberg. 
D) a psychodynamic theorist.

Question 9

Who is experiencing disequilibrium?

Accepted Answer

A) Becky,who is doing much more accommodating than assimilating 
B) Sandy,who is doing more assimilating than accommodating 
C) Jane,who is doing equal amounts of assimilating and accommodating 
D) Carla,who is not doing any assimilating or accommodating

Question 10

Scaffolding matches the amount of assistance to the learner's needs.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

For Piaget,children at all ages are like scientists in that they create theories about how the world works.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Recently your friend Martha took her sons to a hands-on children's museum.Martha noticed that her eight-year-old son and her 12-year-old son interacted with some of the displays in very different ways.One display involved opening doors to safes by determining the correct combination.Each safe had three,four,or five buttons that had to be pressed in a particular order to open the door.Martha's eight-year-old son randomly pushed the buttons and never found the correct combinations to any of the safes.Martha's 12-year-old son approached the task in a very systematic manner,trying all possible combinations of buttons until the doors opened.Now Martha is concerned that there is something wrong with her younger son.What can you tell Martha about the differences in concrete operational and formal operational thought that might explain her sons' behaviour?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Recently your friend Martha took her sons...

Question 13

Cognitive processes are compared to computer ________ by information-processing theorists.

Accepted Answer

A) memory 
B) disk drives 
C) hardware 
D) software

Question 14

Sensory memory holds information the longest of the three types of memory.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Between ages five and seven,children develop a theory of mind.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

According to theory of mind,at three years of age children do not

Accepted Answer

A) understand that they and other people have desires. 
B) understand that desires can cause behaviour. 
C) emphasize desires when trying to explain other people's behaviour. 
D) understand that other people's behaviour is based on beliefs.

Question 17

A weakness of Piaget's theory is that it undervalues the influence of the sociocultural environment on cognitive development.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

According to the sociocultural perspective,children are products of their culture.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

A developmental psychologist is most likely to use a false belief task to study

Accepted Answer

A) theory of mind. 
B) egocentrism. 
C) animism. 
D) attention.

Question 20

Baillargeon found that infants as young as four and a half months showed object permanence in that they consistently looked longer at an unrealistic event than a realistic one.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 6: Theories of Cognitive Development

Concrete operational thinking is identical to adult thinking in that children are able to think abstractly and hypothetically for the first time.

Which infant is using mental symbols?

Which of the following is NOT true of working memory?

Long-term memory

Long-term memory is like a computer's hard drive,a fairly permanent storehouse of programs and data.

The zone of proximal development refers to

Professor Garrett tells his class,"Children's cognition develops continuously and gradually.There are no abrupt changes in thought.There are no distinct stages of cognitive development." Professor Garrett sounds most like

Who is experiencing disequilibrium?

Scaffolding matches the amount of assistance to the learner's needs.

For Piaget,children at all ages are like scientists in that they create theories about how the world works.

Cognitive processes are compared to computer ________ by information-processing theorists.

Sensory memory holds information the longest of the three types of memory.

Between ages five and seven,children develop a theory of mind.

According to theory of mind,at three years of age children do not

A weakness of Piaget's theory is that it undervalues the influence of the sociocultural environment on cognitive development.

According to the sociocultural perspective,children are products of their culture.

A developmental psychologist is most likely to use a false belief task to study

Baillargeon found that infants as young as four and a half months showed object permanence in that they consistently looked longer at an unrealistic event than a realistic one.