Early conceptions of the physical world

Question 1

According to Piagetian theory of knowledge, what is necessary for the child’s construction of knowledge?

Answer 1

Action

Question 2

Piagetian theory of physical knowledge states that conceptual understanding about the world of objects is early or late in development?

Answer 2

late in development

Question 3

Which theory of physical knowledge has these core principles:
solidarity
cohesion
contact
continuity?

Answer 3

Core knowledge hypothesis which states that infants possess innate knowledge of object concepts

Question 4

Which theory of physical knowledge states that infants have a chaotic perceptual input in early infancy?

Answer 4

Piagetian theory

Question 5

Whose theory of physical knowledge states that, genes specify predispositions that channel attention to relevant environmental inputs thus providing the infant with a non-chaotic system from the outset and leading to implicit understanding ?

Answer 5

Karmiloff-Smith, 1992