module 36-38: cognitive development in childhood

Question 1

what is vernix?

Answer 1

a white greasy covering secreted by the skin for protection before birth

Question 2

what is lanugo?

Answer 2

a soft fuzz that covers an infant’s body

Question 3

who is lev vygotsky?

Answer 3

considered the mozart of psychology

believed that our minds grow thorugh interactions with the social world.

Question 4

what is the sociocultural perspective?

Answer 4

how we develop and think is a result of the social and environment in which we are raised.

Question 5

what is culture according to the model from lecture?

Answer 5

information about the world, and a person’s knowledge

Question 6

what are tools of intellectual adaptation?

Answer 6

culturally specific methods of thinking and problem-solving that are internalized

Question 7

what is an example of a tool of intellectual adaptation?

Answer 7

a pen ( and paper)

Question 8

who was Jean Piaget? what did he believe?

Answer 8

believed that our minds grow through interactions with the physical world, through objects and testing them

Question 9

what is assimilation? ( Piagetian mechanism of learning)

Answer 9

translating incoming information into a previously understood form

Question 10

what is accomodation? ( Piagetian mechanism of learning)

Answer 10

adapting knowledge structures in response to new experiences.

Question 11

what is equilibration? ( in Piaget’s terms)

Answer 11

the balance of both assimilation and accomodation.

Question 12

describe Piaget’s stage theory. (name the stages)

Answer 12

Sensorimotor (0-2)
Pre-Operational (2-6)
Concrete Operations (7-10)
Formal Operations (10-13)

Question 13

passign the conservation task means a child has reached what stage? ( Piaget’s Stage theory)

Answer 13

the concrete operational stage