Exam 9: Early Childhood: Cognitive Development

Four-year-old Jonathan is sitting at the lunch counter next to his sister Erin. They are having hot dogs for lunch. When his mom cuts Jonathan's hot dog into five pieces and Erin's into six pieces, Jonathan protests, "Erin has more than me!" Which ability does Jonathan not yet demonstrate?

The process by which one person learns from a more experienced mentor as they share social experiences and explorations is known as _____.

Researchers now believe that Piaget underestimated cognition in infancy and _____ cognition in early childhood.

What was Maria Montessori's objective when she created her preschool?

Theory of mind develops more rapidly when a child has younger siblings.

According to Vygotsky, which capability is demonstrated when young children imitate adult actions that are irrelevant, time-consuming, and inefficient?

Children display evidence of fast-mapping before age 1.

Preschool programs are called "child-centered" when they stress each child's _____.

A child's inability to understand that undoing a sequence of events will bring about the original situation is called _____.

A magician's goal is to get the audience to focus on one aspect of his demonstration while he manipulates another. This is easy to do with preoperational children, as they are fooled by their tendency to _____.

Interactive reading with preschoolers has been found to reduce their reading abilities in elementary school.

Studies suggest that preschool education, such as that provided by Head Start, advances the social and academic development of disadvantaged children.

Conservation refers to a child's assumption that the world is unchanging.

When children assume that the world is unchanging, they engage in _____.

Which kind of educational technology produced higher math scores?

At what age do most children develop theory of mind?

The underlying factor allowing the development of theory of mind is _____.

Which child is apt to have the most well-developed theory of mind?

Which skill is known as one-to-one correspondence?

Research has shown that the development of a theory of mind varies according to _____.