Cog Dev - Studies

Question 1

X - contradicts piagets stages. did the same conervation study but had a ‘naughty teddy’ knock the counters and thus change their appearance. In this experiment 62% got it right that it was the same – suggesting pre-operational children could conserve as long as they werent influenced by the experiementor

Answer 1

McGarrigle and Donaldson (1974)

Question 2

X – contradictory evidence to class inclusion tasks – , found that 5 year olds understood class inclusion – many getting the animals or dogs question right and explaining dogs are a subset of animals.

Answer 2

Siegler and Svetina (2006)

Question 3

V – support for ZPD – found that children made a more accurate estimate of how many sweets were in a jar when they had advise from an older child expert.

Answer 3

Roazzi and Bryant (1998)

Question 4

V – support for scaffolding - longitudinal study that found over time mothers give their child less help on tasks

Answer 4

Connor and Cross (2013)

Question 5

V – support for PRS – suggested that infants understand depth perception from a very early age

Answer 5

Pei et al (2007)

Question 6

V – scientific research support found MN activity using fMRI when seeing people yawn.
X – however, they only looked at general brain activity so cant establish cause and effect

Answer 6

Haker et al (2012)

Question 7

V – ASD and MN systems have been linked – for example research found lower activity in regions of MN in autistics

Answer 7

Hadjikhani (2007)

Question 8

argued that MN’s may not exist at all, but if they do, their role may just be to use others behavior to plan our own instead of understanding the cognitions behind them.

Answer 8

Hickok (2009)

Question 9

Who was first one to do false belief task about maxi and his chocolate

Answer 9

Wimmer and perner