Psychology 327 - Infancy and Early Childhood » Winter 2022 » Chapter 8 Quiz
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Question #1
During early childhood, children enter the second stage of cognitive development that Piaget called the __________ stage.
A.
concrete operational
B.
sensorimotor
C.
preoperational
D.
formal operational
Question #2
_____ is the tendency to attribute life to objects that are not alive.
A.
Centration
B.
Animism
C.
Symbolism
D.
Conservation
Question #3
Preoperational children tend to focus on one aspect of a situation and neglect others, leading to illogical conclusions. Piaget called this tendency
A.
animism.
B.
centration.
C.
seriation.
D.
classification.
Question #4
Piaget's term for awareness that moving or rearranging matter does not change the quantity.
A.
decentration
B.
ordinality
C.
irreversibility
D.
conservation
Question #5
Studies conducted to understand the theory of mind in children between ages 3 and 5 have shown that
A.
theory of mind accompanies the decline of egocentrism and the development of empathy.
B.
children have abandoned all their false beliefs about the world by this stage.
C.
the understanding that other people can have false beliefs does not develop for most children until middle childhood.
D.
young children believe that the mind is continuously active.
Question #6
Which of the following memory systems is defined as a temporary storehouse for incoming information that decays rapidly?
A.
Working memory
B.
Sensory memory
C.
Procedural memory
D.
Semantic memory
Question #7
The second stage of the memory system, where conscious mental activity occurs (such as encoding or retrieving information) is the
A.
sensory memory.
B.
working memory.
C.
iconic memory.
D.
echoic memory.
Question #8
Vygotsky's term for the difference between what a child can do alone and what the child can do with help is known as
A.
zone of cognitive assessment (ZCA).
B.
zone of passive construction (ZPC).
C.
zone of proximal development (ZPD).
D.
zone of innate ability (ZIA).
Question #9
Vygotsky's theory of cognitive development describes _____ as a temporary support to help a child master a task.
A.
stakeholding
B.
conserving
C.
scaffolding
D.
encoding
Question #10
Vygotsky viewed private speech as
A.
a deficit in the process of language development.
B.
a very rare occurrence among normal preschool-age children.
C.
a way to solve problems or clarify thoughts
D.
as a sign of cognitive immaturity.
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