Chapter 6: Infant Studies

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Theories of Cognitive Development
Grace Hernandez-Jackson
Quiz by Grace Hernandez-Jackson, updated 7 months ago
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Question 1

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Assimilation, taking in info that is compatible with what one already knows, is acoordining to which theorist?
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  • Chandler Bing
  • Jean Piaget
  • Erik Erikson
  • Sigmund Freud

Question 2

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What is accommodation (according to Piaget)?
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  • The process by which children recognize their schemes and, in the process, move to the next developmental stage
  • Changing existing knowledge based on new knowledge
  • Taking in info that is compatible with what one already knows

Question 3

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What is equilibration (according to Piaget)?
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  • Taking info that is compatible with what one already knows
  • Changing existing knowledge based on new knowledge
  • The process by which children reorganize their schemes and, in the process, move to the next developmental stage

Question 4

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Sensorimotor, the [blank_start]first[blank_end] of Piaget's four stages of development, lasts from birth to about 2 years, in which infants progress from responding reflexively to using symbols.
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  • first
  • second
  • third
  • fourth

Question 5

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Preoperational is defined as what?
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  • Young children are able to think about things symbolically
  • Distinguishing and mastering individual motions
  • The theory that Rachel and Ross were on a break

Question 6

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What is concrete operational?
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  • The opposite of preoperational
  • The tendency to focus on one salient aspects of a situation and neglect other, possibly relevant aspects
  • Something characterized by the emergence of logical operations such as conservation, reversibility or classification, allowing logical reasoning
  • Operational that is concrete

Question 7

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The formal operational stage is characterized by what?
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  • The emergence of logical thinking processes, particularly the ability to understand theories and abstract ideas and predict possible outcomes of hypothetical problems
  • Not using your frontal lobe to make decisions properly
  • Difficulty in seeing the world from another's POV

Question 8

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[blank_start]Egocentrism[blank_end] is the difficulty in seeing the world from another's perspective, typical of children in piaget's preoperational stage
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  • Egocentrism

Question 9

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What is the phenomenon in which preschool children attribute life and lifelike properties to inanimate objects?
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  • Egocentrism
  • Animism
  • Marcel, Ross' monkey
  • Centration

Question 10

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What is centration?
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  • Distinguishing and mastering individual motions
  • Young children are able to think about things symbolically
  • Difficulty in seeing the world from another's point of view; typical of children in Piaget's preoperational stage
  • The tendency to focus on one salient aspect of a situation and neglect other, possibly relevant aspects

Question 11

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Object [blank_start]permanence[blank_end] is the understanding, acquired in infancy, that objects exist independently of oneself.
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  • permanence

Question 12

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Constructivism is the view associated with [blank_start]Piaget[blank_end] that children are active participants in their own development who systematically construct ever-more-sophisticated understanding of their worlds.
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  • Piaget
  • Erikson
  • Freud
  • Watson

Question 13

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The sociocultural perspective is the view that children's cognitive development can only be understood by considering the cultural contexts in which they develop. Which theorist is associated with this?
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  • Ross Geller
  • B.F Skinner
  • Lev Vygotsky
  • Ivan Pavlov

Question 14

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According to Vygotsky, mutual, shared understanding among people who are participating in an activity together is called what?
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  • Intersubjectivity
  • Guided participation
  • Sociocultural perspective

Question 15

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Structured interactions between a child and another more knowledgeable person are thought to promote cognitive growth. This is called guided participation and is thought to be by Piaget.
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  • True
  • False

Question 16

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The [blank_start]zone[blank_end] of proximal development is the difference between what children can do with assistance and what they can do alone. Like putting a bed sheet on the bed (not really).
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  • zone
  • theory

Question 17

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Brain break: How many times did Ross Geller get married?
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  • 2
  • 3
  • 4

Question 18

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What is scaffolding?
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  • A view that human cognition consists of mental hardware and mental software
  • Subvocalized speech directed and adapted to oneself
  • The process that enables a child or novice to solve a problem, carry out a task, or achieve a goal that would be beyond his unassisted efforts.

Question 19

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Private speech is speech spoken to oneself for what? Of these options, how many apply?
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  • Communication
  • Self-guidance
  • Self-regulation
  • "Little Harmonica"

Question 20

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What is inner speech?
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  • Subvocalized speech directed and adapted to oneself
  • Speech spoken to oneself for communication, self-guidance, and self-regulation of behavior

Question 21

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Information-processing [blank_start]theory[blank_end] is the view that human connection consists of mental hardware and mental software
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  • theory
  • disorder
  • perspective
  • process

Question 22

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What is the component of the information-processing system analogous to a computer's operating system that coordinates the activities of the system called?
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  • Inhibitory processes
  • Scaffolding
  • Central executive

Question 23

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Inhibitory [blank_start]processes[blank_end] are cognitive processes that relate to the control of thought, conduct, and emotions during goal-directed behavior.
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  • processes
  • theory
  • perspective
  • system

Question 24

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What is executive functioning?
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  • Cognitive activities that require virtually no effort
  • The difference between what children can do with assistance and what they can do alone
  • A mechanism of growth that includes inhibitory processes, planning, and cognitive flexibility
  • A view that human cognition consists of mental hardware and mental software

Question 25

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Core-knowledge [blank_start]theories[blank_end] are the view that infants are born with a rudimentary knowledge of the world that is elaborated based on children's experiences.
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  • theories
  • hypothesis
  • processes

Question 26

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What are automatic processes?
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  • When Phoebe got pregnant for her brother,
  • Cognitive processes are cognitive activities that require virtually no effort
  • The size of ongoing cognitive activity
  • Limitless, permanent storehouse of knowledge of the world

Question 27

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What is it called when there is the belief that living things and parts of living things exist for a purpose that is applied to children's naive theories of living things?
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  • Automatic processes
  • A theory of mind
  • Theological explanations

Question 28

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What is essentialism?
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  • When children believe that all living things have an essence that can't be seen but gives a living thing its identity
  • When Ross and Phoebe kissed (was that a fever dream???)
  • The size of ongoing cognitive activity

Question 29

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The theory of mind is a naive understanding of the relations between mind and behavior – between ages of [blank_start]2 and 5[blank_end]
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  • 2 and 5
  • 7 and 9
  • 12 and 15

Question 30

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[blank_start]Sensory[blank_end] memory is where info is held, no longer than a few seconds, briefly in a raw, unanalyzed form
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  • Sensory
  • Working
  • Long-term

Question 31

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[blank_start]Working[blank_end] memory is the size of ongoing cognitive activity
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  • Working
  • Sensory
  • Long-term

Question 32

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[blank_start]Long-term[blank_end] memory is limitless. permanent storehouse of knowledge of the world.
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  • Sensory
  • Long-term
  • Working
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