Module 9

Question 0

Piaget’s Stage: birth to nearly 2 yrs.

Answer 0

Object permanence ; stranger anxiety

Question 1

Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior relatively influenced by experience

Answer 1

Maturation

Question 2

Piaget’s Stage: two to about six or seven years

Answer 2

Pretend play ; egocentricism ; Language development

Question 3

Piaget’s Stage: about 7 to 11 yrs.

Answer 3

Conversation; mathematical transformations

Question 4

Piaget’s Stage: about 12 through adulthood

Answer 4

Abstract logic; potential for mature moral reasoning

Question 5

Experiencing the world through senses and actions (looking touching mouthing and grasping)

Answer 5

Sensorimotor

Question 6

Representing things with words and images; use intuitive rather than logical reasoning

Answer 6

Preoperational

Question 7

Thinking logically about concrete events; grasping concrete analogies and performing arithmetical operations

Answer 7

Concrete operational

Question 8

Abstract reasoning

Answer 8

Formal operational

Question 9

A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information

Answer 9

Schema

Question 10

Interpreting one’s new experience in terms of one’s existing schemas

Answer 10

Assimilation

Question 11

Adapting one’s current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information

Answer 11

Accommodation

Question 12

All the mental activities associated with thinking knowing remembering and communicating

Answer 12

Cognition

Question 13

in Piaget’s theory the stage from birth to about two years of age during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities

Answer 13

Sensorimotor stage

Question 14

The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived

Answer 14

Object permanence

Question 15

Piaget’s theory the stage from about 2 to 6 or seven years of age during which a child learns to use language but does not comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic

Answer 15

Preoperational stage

Question 16

The principle which Piaget believes to be a part of concrete operational reasoning.Properties such as mass volume and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects

Answer 16

Conversation

Question 17

In Piaget’s theory the preoperational child’s difficulty taking another’s point of view

Answer 17

Egocentrism

Question 18

People’s ideas about their own and others’ mental states- about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts and the behavior these might predict

Answer 18

Theory of mind

Question 19

A disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication social interaction and understanding of other states of mind

Answer 19

Autism

Question 20

In Piaget’s theory the stage of cognitive development from about six or 7 to 11 years of age during which children gain the mental operations to enable them to think logically about concrete events

Answer 20

Concrete operational stage

Question 21

In Piaget’s theory, the stage of cognitive development ( normally beginning about age 12 ) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts.

Answer 21

Formal operational stage

Question 22

The fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about eight months of age.

Answer 22

Stranger anxiety

Question 23

An emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation.

Answer 23

Attachment

Question 24

An optimal period Shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development.

Answer 24

Critical period

Question 25

The process by which certain animals form attachments during the critical period very early in life.

Answer 25

Imprinting

Question 26

According to Erick Erickson, a sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy; said to be formed during infancy by appropriate experiences with responsive caregivers.

Answer 26

Basic trust

Question 27

A sense of one's identity and personal worth.

Answer 27

Self-concept