Exam 4: The Emergence of Thought and Language: Cognitive Development in Infancy and Early Childhood

Research has found that when parents use a(n) ________ style in communicating with their children they will have earlier memories of childhood when they reach adolescence.

Young Ruthie is tickled pink when she opens her Christmas present and finds the red-haired dolly that she has been asking for weeks. She hugs it, kisses it, and jumps around. For the first hour, she refuses to let it go. By the next day, the dolly is in the toy box with the rest of the forgotten trinkets. Ruthie's initial reaction would be a(n) ________, and her later loss of interest in the dolly demonstrates ________.

Piaget's theory has been the foundation of cognitive developmental theories for many years, but it is not without its critics. List at least three of the criticisms that are identified by your textbook.

Your authors suggest one particular strategy for helping children focus their attention and reduce distractions. Which of the following is it?

Which of the following do you think would be MOST likely to occur first?

The fourth proposed stage of cognitive development in Piaget's model is the ________ period.

________ is when a teacher gauges the amount of assistance they provide to match the needs of a specific learner.

How does learning to use our native language relate to learning faces of those around us?

In Vygotsky's theory, the difference between what a child can do on his or her own and what they can do only with assistance is called the

According to Piaget, a preoperational child's view of the world is ________; that is, they believe that others see the world exactly as they do.

Mental software refers to mental and neural structures that are built in and that allow the mind to operate.

When adults speak slowly and with exaggerated changes in pitch and volume, they are using ________ speech.

Laurentis is a three-month-old child who enjoys sucking on his thumb. According to Piaget, he probably first developed this enjoyment as a result of a(n)

Young Matthew is playing with his mother. She has his favorite stuffed animal, and she suddenly hides it under his blanket. Instead of looking for it under the blanket, Matthew starts to cry a little, since he thinks his toy is gone. Matthew has not yet developed

Piaget's theory is often criticized for having overestimated the cognitive skills of infants and young children and for underestimating the cognitive skills of adolescents.

The correct order of the four stages of cognitive development, according to Piaget, are

Your textbook notes that one of the difficulties associated with children providing reliable testimony about events that have occurred, particularly in cases of alleged abuse, because

A child's cognitive growth occurs most rapidly when their understanding of the world is constructed for them by a teacher or parent.

Piaget hypothesized that children use two complementary processes to allow their experiences and schemes to work with each other. They are ________ and ________.

According to the core knowledge hypothesis, infants are born with some rudimentary knowledge of the world, and that knowledge is elaborated upon as they have experiences.