Athabasca Quiz 2 Flashcards
Piaget argued that movement from one stage of thought to the next was triggered by
Select one:
a. assimilation
b. organization
c. accommodation
d. disequilibrium
d. disequilibrium
- _____ is the fear that one’s behaviour will confirm preconceived notions about one’s group.
Select one:
a. Verbal threat
b. Spatial threat
c. Stereotype threat
d. Problem-solving threat
c. Stereotype threat
According to Siegler, an information processing theorist, three mechanisms work together to create changes in children’s cognitive skills. Which of the following is not one of the mechanisms?
Select one:
a. Encoding
b. Automaticity
c. Assimilation
d. Strategy construction
c. Assimilation
Internalized sets of actions that allow children to do mentally what before they had done physically are called
Select one:
a. schemas
b. operations
c. concepts
d. symbols
b. operations
Language is made up of basic sounds called
Select one:
a. vowels
b. syllables
c. phonemes
d. morphemes
c. phonemes
What is the formula for the intelligence quotient?
Select one:
a. IQ = MA/CA × 100
b. IQ = CA/MA × 100
c. IQ = MA/CA ÷ 100
d. IQ = CA/MA ÷ 100
A. IQ = MA/CA × 100
MA=Mental Age
CA=Chronological Age
What do the subtest and composite scores of the Wechsler scales allow the examiner to do?
Select one:
a. Determine the achievement level of the individual
b. Determine the IQ score of the individual
c. Determine the areas in which the individual is strong or weak
d. Determine the happiness of the individual
c. Determine the areas in which the individual is strong or weak
Which of the following is a strong statement of Vygotsky’s ideas on private speech?
Select one:
a. Children who use private speech are socially withdrawn.
b. Children who use private speech do so to govern their behaviour and guide themselves.
c. Self-talk will never become second nature to children.
d. Inner speech is not a part of a child’s thoughts.
b. Children who use private speech do so to govern their behaviour and guide themselves
Two-year-old Gannon says, “I go park” to his mother to convey, “I want to go to the park.” This language is called _____ speech.
Select one:
a. telegraphic
b. holophrastic
c. egocentric
d. infant-directed
a. telegraphic
A scheme is best thought of as a
Select one:
a. behaviour
b. symbolic image
c. simple organized pattern of knowledge
d. process of adjusting to new information
c. simple organized pattern of knowledge
A memory strategy in which a child arranges items into categories is called
Select one:
a. imagery
b. rehearsal
c. elaboration
d. organization
d. organization
What approach to thinking analyzes how children manipulate information, monitor it, and create strategies for handling it?
Select one:
a. Social learning
b. Cognitive monitoring
c. Cognitive developmental
d. Information-processing
d. Information-processing
Faye just received a high score on her Bayley Scales of Infant Development test. Given this information, what can you predict?
Select one:
a. Faye will receive a high IQ score on subsequent intelligence tests.
b. Faye is highly verbal.
c. Faye is likely in preschool.
d. You cannot make accurate predictions about her future intellectual abilities.
d. You cannot make accurate predictions about her future intellectual abilities.
Which term is semantically related to the word shrub?
Select one:
a. Flower
b. Bush
c. House
d. Garden
b. Bush
How fast children can articulate a series of words is an example of
Select one:
a. cognitive resources
b. assimilation
c. abundance
d. processing speed
d. processing speed
