Chapter 7: Cognitive development in Early Childhood Flashcards
By what age do a majority fo children develop a realization that people can have false beliefs?
5 years old.
A child uses a scribbled design to represent her family. This is an example of…
symbolic function
Piaget’s preoperational period extends from…
2 to 7 years old.
The rules of conversation are called…
pragmatics
Centration leads a child to…
focus on only one feature of an object
the retention of information over time is called
Memory
Three-year-old Ke, on hearing thunder, said, “the clouds are talking loudly outside.” Ke’s behavior illustrates the concept of…
animism.
As children move through the zone of proximal development, they…
take more responsibility for learning from the adult who is helping them.
The symbolic function substage occurs roughly between the ages of…
2 and 4
