children Test 4

Question 1

refers to the acquisition of skills involving movement, such as grasping, crawling, and walking.

Answer 1

Motor development

Question 2

In Piaget’s theory, the stage of cognitive development between birth and 2 years of age in which the individual develops “object permanence” and acquires the ability to form mental representations.

Answer 2

Sensory-motor stage

Question 3

The concept that things continue to exist even when they are out of sight.

Answer 3

Object permanence

Question 4

In Piaget’s theory, the stage of cognitive development between 2 and 7 years of age in which the individual becomes able to use “mental representations and language to describe”, remember, and reason about the world, though only in an egocentric fashion.

Answer 4

Preoperational stage

Question 5

In Piaget’s theory, the stage of cognitive development between 7 and 11 years of age in which the individual can attend to more than one thing at a time and under- stand someone else’s point of view, though thinking is limited to concrete matters.

Answer 5

Concrete-operational stage

Question 6

The concept that the quantity of a substance is not altered by reversible changes in its appearance.

Answer 6

Principle of conservation

Question 7

In Piaget’s theory, the stage of cognitive development between 11 and 15 years of age in which the individual becomes capable of “abstract thought.”

Answer 7

Formal-operational stage

Question 8

A hypothetical neural mechanism for acquiring language that is presumed to be “wired into” all humans.

Answer 8

Language acquisition device