Cognitive Development

Question 1

Exercise their inborn reflexes and gain some control over them. Practice their reflexes and control them (e.g., sucking whenever they want to)

Answer 1

Use of Reflexes

Question 2

Repeat pleasurable behaviors that first occur by chance

Answer 2

Primary Circular Reactions

Question 3

Begin to coordinate sensory information and grasp objects

Answer 3

Primary Circular Reactions

Question 4

They turn towards the sounds

Answer 4

Primary Circular Reactions

Question 5

Repeat actions that brings interesting results

Answer 5

Secondary Circular Reactions

Question 6

Learns about causality

Answer 6

Secondary Circular Reactions

Question 7

Coordinate previously learned schemes and use previously learned behaviors to attain their goals

Answer 7

Coordination of Secondary Schemes

Question 8

Can anticipate events

Answer 8

Coordination of Secondary Schemes

Question 9

Purposefully vary their actions to see results. Actively explore the world. Trial and error in solving problems

Answer 9

Tertiary Circular Reactions

Question 10

Can think about events and anticipate consequences without always resorting action

Answer 10

Mental Combinations

Question 11

Can use symbols such as gestures and words, and can pretend

Answer 11

Mental Combinations

Question 12

Transition to Pre-operational stage

Answer 12

Mental Combinations

Question 13

Learn about numbers

Answer 13

Mental Combinations

Question 14

Being able to think about something in the absence of sensory or motor cues

Answer 14

Symbolic Function

Question 15

The most extensive use of symbolic function is

Answer 15

language

Question 16

Occurs between ages of 2 and 4

Answer 16

Symbolic Functions

Question 17

Begin to use primitive reasoning and want to know the answers to all sorts of questions. Occurs approximately 4-7 years of age

Answer 17

Intuitive Thought

Question 18

They mentally link two events, especially events close in time, whether or not here is logically a causal relationship

Answer 18

Transduction

Question 19

The concept that people and many things are basically the same even if they change in outward form, size, or appearance

Answer 19

Identities

Question 20

Tendency to attribute life to objects that are not alive

Answer 20

Animism

Question 21

The tendency to focus on one aspect of a situation and neglect others

Answer 21

Centration

Question 22

Failure to understand that an action can go in two or more directions

Answer 22

Irreversibility

Question 23

Young children center so much on their own point of view that they cannot take in another’s

Answer 23

Egocentrism

Question 24

The fact that two things are equal remain so if their appearance is altered, as long as nothing is added or taken away

Answer 24

Conservation

Question 25

The awareness of the broad range of human mental states – beliefs, intents, desires, dreams, and so forth – and the understanding that others have their own

Answer 25

Theory of Mind

Question 26

allows to interpret maps and navigate environment

Answer 26

Spatial Concepts

Question 27

arranging objects in a series according to one or more dimensions

Answer 27

Seriation

Question 28

A < B < C

Answer 28

Transitive Inferences/Transivity

Question 29

ability to see the relationship between a whole and its parts, and to understand categories within a whole

Answer 29

Class Inclusion

Question 30

involves making observations about particular members of a class of people, animals, objects, or events, and then drawing conclusions about the class as a whole

Answer 30

Inductive Reasoning

Question 31

starts with a general statement about a class and applies it to particular members of the class

Answer 31

Deductive Reasoning

Question 32

still same object even tho it has different appearance

Answer 32

Principle of Identity

Question 33

can picture what would happen if he tried to roll back the clay of snake

Answer 33

Principle of Reversibility

Question 34

ability to look at more than one aspect of the two objects at once

Answer 34

Decenter

Question 35

Thinking that relies on exact, detailed, and literal information (facts, numbers, specific wording). Thinking that relies on exact, detailed, and literal information (facts, numbers, specific wording).

Answer 35

Verbal Anlytical

Question 36

Thinking based on the general meaning, essence, or "big picture" rather than specifics. It’s more intuitive and quicker, relying on experience or overall understanding

Answer 36

Gist-intuitional

Question 37

decision making is influenced by two cognitive systems: verbatim analytical and gist-intuitional, which operate in parallel

Answer 37

Fuzzy-Trace Theory Dual-Process Model