Exam 12: Cognitive Development

In developmental psychology, empiricism refers to

Which of the following is NOT one of the broad levels of moral development according to Kohlberg

According to Kohlberg, this stage is generally characteristic of older school-age children and many adolescents and adults, is based on respect for law, social norms, and rules set by parents and other authorities

During the process of transmission, cultural tools initially exist on an

Williams syndrome is characterised by low verbal scores and social interaction but high scores on non-verbal IQ

As a child moves from the pre-operational to the concrete operational stage, they begin to develop the understanding that an object may retain its identity even if its appearance is changed for some reason. This ability is called

Kohlberg divided these specific stages into _ broad levels

The social constructivist theory is associated with

According to Piaget's constructivist theory of development, mental structures also known as schema, become more sophisticated with age.

Which of the following is true regarding the milestones of an infant's motor development?

According to Jean Piaget, babies construct meaning from their environment. Describe the push and pull of the two learning processes known as assimilation and accommodation, and briefly describe each stage in Piaget's 4-stage theory of cognitive development.

Children on the __________have difficulty with theory of mind and lag several years behind others in false belief tasks

Vygotsky and Piaget both emphasized that cognitive growth in the child is highly variable and dependent on the individual child's social and cultural experiences and the broader sociocultural context as expressed in phenomena such as language.

Kohlberg's cognitive-developmental theory of moral reasoning describes moral development as occurring in a series of universal, invariant stages. Describe Kohlberg's theory making reference to the three levels of moral development.

When primary school children's knowledge of birds is altered or expanded so that includes examples like penguin and ostrich, this developmental phenomena has probably occurred

According to the social constructivism theory, learning takes place when children cross zones of proximal development

Though there is considerable debate about this stage of Piaget's developmental theory, he asserted that all adolescents and adults live the rest of their lives within it

According to Kohlberg, this stage is generally characteristic of some older adolescents and adults, involves more complex personal judgments based on abstract principles, such as fairness or justice.

The false-belief task depicts a situation where children must understand that their own knowledge of the true facts of a situation may conflict with someone else's false beliefs about the situation. The task is used as a test of this.

Which of the following is NOT one of the five foundations of morality