Chapter 6 Quiz Flashcards
In Piaget’s theory, _____ is illustrated by a breastfed baby who changes the way that she sucks to get milk from a bottle
Accommodation
In Piaget’s theory, children are thought to be….
Little Scientists
Which are defining features of the sensorimotor stage?
Adapting to and exploring the environment, understanding objects
A defining feature of children in the _____ stage of development is that they are often egocentric-they are unable to take the perspective of other people
Preoperational
During the ____ stage, thinking is rule-oriented and logical but limited to the tangible and real
Concrete operational
A teaching practice suggested by Piaget’s theory is ____
Teaching at a level slightly ahead of children’s current level of thinking
The zone of proximal development refers to ____
The difference between what a child can do with and without help
Private Speech____
Helps children regulate their own behavior
Information-processing theorists refer to sensory memory, working memory, and long-term memory as mental ___
Hardware
Information-processing theorists believe that development change occurs ____
In several different forms, rather than by a single mechanism
____ propose distinctive domains of knowledge, some of which are acquired early in life
Core-Knowledge theories
Research on infants’ naïve theories of physics shows that they ____
Understand that solids keep their shape when moved but that liquids do not
Many 4-year-olds believe that ____
Only living things have offspring
Some researchers believe that the defining characteristic of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is the absence of a theory of mind, called ____
Mindblindness
