ABSC 160 Chapter 7 Quiz

TRUE OR FALSE: New technologies have allowed us to see how these cognitive theories can intersect with one another.

True

How are Piaget and Vygotsky similar in their understanding of how children learn? 1. Both Piaget and Vygotsky believed that children were passive in their understanding rather than constructing knowledge. 2. Both Piaget and Vygotsky believed that children habituated rather than had sustained attention to learn information. 3. Both Piaget and Vygotsky believed that children had sustained attention to learn rather than habituated knowledge. 4. Both Piaget and Vygotsky believed that children construct their understanding rather than being passive.

Both Piaget and Vygotsky believed that children construct their understanding rather than being passive.

TRUE OR FALSE: Experiments called violation of expectations paradigms were based on the understanding of attention, sustained and selective.

False

TRUE OR FALSE: Mobile media is more distracting to adolescents due to the "deep connections" friends have with one another.

False

TRUE OR FALSE: More recently, researchers have described children's difficulties with conservation as a result of a limited amount of automaticity.

False

Which individual is demonstrating an understanding of classification? 1. Garth's teacher is helping him sound out words 2. Julia is imitating a behavior she saw last week 3. Katie is creating a chart of a hierarchy of different mammals 4. Carlos thinks that he is invincible.

Katie is creating a chart of a hierarchy of different mammals

Dr. Gregorio is conducting a research study of cognitive development in children. She uses the same measure on 4 different groups of children, each she states are at a different stage of cognitive development. She is a big proponent of the constructivist view and that environment influences cognitive growth. Dr. Gregorio MOST likely supports which theory of cognitive development? 1. Piaget's cognitive theory 2. theory of core knowledge 3. information processing 4. Vygotsky's sociocultural theory

Piaget's cognitive theory

What impact does environment have on a preschool child's attention span? 1. Preschool children have longer attention spans for activities that they choose themselves. 2. Preschool children have longer attention spans for private speech play. 3. Preschool children have shorter attention spans for private speech play. 4. Preschool children have shorter attention spans for activities that they choose themselves.

Preschool children have longer attention spans for activities that they choose themselves.

What impact does scaffolding have on the profession of teaching? 1. Teachers are able to use this technique to provide the support students need until they can master a concept. 2. Teachers are able to understand how children use false memories to support their understanding. 3. Teachers are able to understand how long-term memory works with support for learning concepts. 4. Teachers are able to use this to understand selective attention of students in their classrooms.

Teachers are able to use this technique to provide the support students need until they can master a concept.

What impact did the "three mountains task" have on understanding egocentrism? 1. The "three mountains task" illustrated that no matter whether children counted the coins in a row, they would say they were unequal if one was stretched farther than the other. 2. The "three mountain task" illustrated that children were capable of sustained attention as long as they were looking at an interesting picture. 3. The "three mountains task" illustrated that children practiced thinking about their own thinking to the exclusion of everyone else. 4. The "three mountains task" illustrated that children would respond that no matter where others were situated, that everyone would see things from only the children's point of view.

The "three mountains task" illustrated that children would respond that no matter where others were situated, that everyone would see things from only the children's point of view.

What impact did the violation of expectation paradigms have on how infants understand the world? 1. The violation of expectation paradigms suggested that adults using transductive reasoning will aid infants to understand the approximate number system. 2. The violation of expectation paradigms suggested that infants, like adults, will look at things longer when they are surprised by them. 3. The violation of expectation paradigms suggested that adults using metacognition will aid infants to begin private speech. 4. The violation of expectation paradigms suggested that infants understand conservation well before what Piaget theorized.

The violation of expectation paradigms suggested that infants, like adults, will look at things longer when they are surprised by them.

TRUE OR FALSE: A child, after about the age of 12, is able to use the scientific method to test a hypothesis and reason logically about hypothetical possibilities according to Piaget.

True

TRUE OR FALSE: Piaget theorized that infants first had to perform actions to develop a mental representation of the action.

True

How do Vygotsky and Piaget differ philosophically about learning? 1. Vygotsky believed that learning was the result of false memories, while Piaget believed that learning was due to false memories. 2. Vygotsky believed that learning was due to false memories, while Piaget believed that learning was the result of deferred imitation. 3. Vygotsky believed that learning was largely independent, while Piaget believed that learning begins in the social world. 4. Vygotsky believed learning begins in the social world, while Piaget believed that learning was largely independent.

Vygotsky believed learning begins in the social world, while Piaget believed that learning was largely independent.

DeShawn wants to remember the formula for the quiz in math class. He decides to picture the parts of this equation like hitting a baseball. He pictures the question on the ball, the equation down the bat, and then him working through it as the ball is hit into the outfield. Which encoding process is DeShawn using to help him remember the equation? 1. rehearsal 2. seriation 3. elaboration 4. centration

elaboration

Which concept refers to the loss of interest in something that an infant has seen before? 1. formal operations 2. habituation 3. sustained attention 4. conservation

habituation

Which concept consists of the ability to resist distractions, stop a response, and to control what you pay attention to? 1. encoding processes 2. formal operations 3. inhibitory control 4. transductive reasoning

inhibitory control

Researchers in the theory of core knowledge understanding of cognitive development pose that some competencies are ______. 1. innate 2. habituated 3. scaffolded 4. reversible

innate

Which is a concept that children use to help them remember things through repetition? 1. rehearsal 2. elaboration 3. scaffolding 4. seriation

rehearsal

Which concept refers to providing support to learning things that are just out of reach of children's abilities? 1. private speech 2. conservation 3. scaffolding 4. egocentrism

scaffolding

Which term refers to the ability to put things in some sort of order such as by height? 1. classification 2. seriation 3. intuitive thought 4. scaffolding

seriation

Vygotsky believed that knowledge is constructed through ______. 1. social, cultural, and historical surroundings 2. stages of development 3. innate biological processes 4. brain functions influenced by the environment

social, cultural, and historical surroundings

Miguel is watching a magician do a trick with a coin. He watches as the magician makes the coin disappear, and when he makes it come back he has two coins. When he puts the two coins under a cup, then when it is lifted there are five coins. Miguel is very interested in watching all of this. According to the theory of core knowledge, this is due to which concept? 1. violation of expectations 2. deferred imitation 3. hypothetico-deductive reasoning 4. fuzzy trace theory

violation of expectations

Mrs. Cole has adopted a new way to assess the children in her classroom. She wants to help them learn and rise to their full potential. In order to achieve this goal, she decides to assess each student on their own and then again with a little help from her. Which has Mrs. Cole adopted? 1. conservation 2. private speech 3. zone of proximal development 4. postformal operations

zone of proximal development

Which concept refers to the dynamic assessment that focuses on what a child can do with a little guidance? 1. violation of expectations 2. reversibility 3. zone of proximal development 4. private speech

zone of proximal development