Cognitive Development

Question 1

Adaptation

Answer 1

Building schemes through direct interaction with the environment

Question 2

Assimilation

Answer 2

Use current schemes to interpret external world

Question 3

Accommodation

Answer 3

Create new schemes or adjust old ones due to disequilibrium

Question 4

Organization

Answer 4

Rearranging new schemes to link them with other schemes and creating strong connections

Question 5

Sensorimotor Stage Hallmarks

Answer 5

-no object permanence

Question 6

Object permanence studies

Answer 6

1) A not B
2) Invisible displacement
3) drawbridge study
4) counting study

Question 7

Preoperational Stage Hallmarks

Answer 7

1) egocentrism
2) appearance/reality distinction problems
3) no conservation
4) hierarchal classification

Question 8

Concrete Operational Stage Hallmarks

Answer 8

1) conservation
2) classification
3) seriation and transitive inference

Question 9

Formal Operational Stage Hallmarks

Answer 9

1) inductive and hypo-thetico seductive reasoning

Question 10

Core Knowledge

Answer 10

Entire knowledge systems are innate and evolved through natural selection

Question 11

Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory

Answer 11

1) zone of proximal development

2) scaffolding/guided participation

Question 12

Attentional strategies

Answer 12

1) production deficiency
2) control deficiency
3) utilization deficiency
4) effective strategy use

Question 13

Strategies for storing information

Answer 13

1) rehearsal
2) organization
3) elaboration

Question 14

Retrieving information

Answer 14

1) recognition and recall

2) reconstruction