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