Exam 9: Social Cognition

Children whose parents encourage them to tell stories and to talk about past events have earlier childhood memories than children not encouraged to do so.This suggests that

An important ingredient in the process of scaffolding is the establishment of _________,the mutual attention and shared communication that takes place between expert and learner.

The concept of scaffolding is similar in meaning to the concept of ________ that Barbara Rogoff has used to discuss cross-cultural differences in how caregivers provide assistance to children.

Bigler's studies revealed that children in the experimental group showed a tendency to ascribe positive traits to

Verbal abilities allow for information to be encoded in a form radically different from the action-based codes of the infant.This may be an explanation for the phenomenon of

Children form social categories by ________ of age.

Improvements in children's ability to use maps may require an interesting intersection of two kinds of skills: understanding spatial relations and appreciating the intentions of the creators of maps.

Ryan has the ability to understand that a symbol or model can stand for a real-life event.This is known as cognitive insight.

Cynthia is six-years-old.She is able to use a map

Woodward's results revealed that infants

Being able to ________ is an important milestone in the development of social cognition.

Which of the following pieces of evidence does not suggest that socialization can impact the development of a theory of mind?

A young child who encounters a puzzling or ambiguous event sometimes seeks help from the expressions of another individual.This example of the child's active involvement in emotional development is called

________ argued that children are unable to think with symbols,that is,use representations,until near the end of the sensorimotor stage of development at about eighteen months of age.

The "sticky mitten" experiment revealed that infants'

Which of the following is the most basic ability needed for human cognitive ability?

Referential communication is communication in situations that require the child to describe an object to a listener or evaluate the effectiveness of a message.

What are the four possible explanations for the occurrence of infantile amnesia?

Children become capable of intentional deception around

Of special importance in the development of cognition is the child's collaboration with and internalization of social exchanges with