Week 3 - Cognitive Foundations of Development Flashcards
Piaget’s stage that is marked by the ability to think about hypothetical scenarios and process abstract thoughts is the:
Formal operational stage
Many researchers believe that postformal thinking emerges during:
Emerging adulthood
Piaget proposed that the development of formal operations reaches completion sometime between the ages of:
15 & 20
The participants in the pendulum problem who reached formal operations demonstrated the ability to use ___________, a term used to describe the process of systematically testing variables to find a solution and then explain the solution.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning
One of the limitations of Piagetian theory is the
Neglect of the cultural basis of cognitive development
New models of information processing have moved away from what analogy?
The mind as a simple computer
What are the three separate capacities in the information processing model?
attention, storing & retrieving, processing
According to the information processing approach, processing of information begins with:
attention
True or false: Processing speed in adolescents is faster than children’s
True
______________________ is an extension of the zone of proximal development and emphasizes the impact that joint problem solving with skilled social partners has on individual development.
Guided participation
Vygotsky observed the effects of teachers on children’s performance and he developed the concept of:
The zone of proximal development
The process through which more capable individuals structure tasks to boost less capable individuals performance is referred to as:
Scaffolding
The ________ is a key part of the brain’s reward system:
Striatum
During the process of synaptic pruning:
Pathways that are not used are pruned
