What was the aim of Freund's 1990 study?

Determine if maternal guidance improves learning of furniture placement

Hughes's criticism of Piaget & Inhelder's three mountain task was

The task did not make sense to the children.

A key difference between Vygotsky's and Piaget's theories of development is

Vygotsky argued that learning tends to precede development.

What was the aim of Borke's 1970 study?

To re-examine Piaget's mountain study results

What might be a general difficulty for psychologists studying development?

Finding tasks children can understand, The risk of accidentally teaching the characteristic you are oberving, Potential ethical concerns working with children, Finding a large and diverse sample

What was the aim of Piaget's 1956 Study?

To determine the age at which children decenter

Which of the following is not a limitation of Piagetian theory?

His experimental hypotheses were based on research

Which of the following is NOT an assumption made by Piaget in his theory of cognitive development?

Developed language is necessary for cognitive development.

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What was the aim of Freund's 1990 study?
Determine if maternal guidance improves learning of furniture placement
To determine the age at which children decenter
To re-examine Piaget's mountain study results
How medical scans show the brain changes over childhood/adolescence
2
Hughes's criticism of Piaget & Inhelder's three mountain task was
It was open to demand characteristics.
The task was more about object permanence than egocentrism.
The task was unethical in that the children were deceived.
The task did not make sense to the children.
3
A key difference between Vygotsky's and Piaget's theories of development is
Vygotsky argued that learning tends to precede development.
Vygotsky argued that there are universal stages of cognitive development.
Piaget acknowledged the importance of biological maturation in development.
Piaget said young children are actively involved in their own learning.
4
This stage of Piagetian development is characterized by the ability to carry out abstract reasoning.
Pre Operational stage
Concrete operations
Formal operations
Sensorimotor stage
5
What was the aim of Borke's 1970 study?
How medical scans show the brain changes over childhood/adolescence
To re-examine Piaget's mountain study results
Determine if maternal guidance improves learning of furniture placement
To determine the age at which children decenter
6
Trivia: Who is supposed to have hated Vygotsky?
Mussolini
Grover
Stalin
Hitler
7
What might be a general difficulty for psychologists studying development?
Finding tasks children can understand
The risk of accidentally teaching the characteristic you are oberving
Potential ethical concerns working with children
Finding a large and diverse sample
8
What was the aim of Piaget's 1956 Study?
Determine if maternal guidance improves learning of furniture placement
How medical scans show the brain changes over childhood/adolescence
To re-examine Piaget's mountain study results
To determine the age at which children decenter
9
Mistaking a chicken for a duck is an example of
equilibration
accommodation
being too hungry
assimilation
10
The process by which we learn, according to Piaget, is called
being too hungry
accommodation
assimilation
equilibration
11
The ability to understand the conservation of matter is characteristic of the end of which stage of development?
Sensorimotor stage
Formal Operations
Concrete Operations
Pre Operational stage
12
Which of the following is not a limitation of Piagetian theory?
His experimental hypotheses were based on research
The theory is descriptive rather than explanatory.
Much of the research was cross-sectional, not longitudinal in design.
The tasks used to test the theory were highly language dependent.
13
Which of the following is NOT an assumption made by Piaget in his theory of cognitive development?
Children are active learners
Physical maturation precedes cognitive development
Developed language is necessary for cognitive development.
Children learn from interacting with their environment
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What a child can achieve on own and what a child can achieve with guidance and encouragement from a MKO is called the...
Naive psychology
Zone of Proximal Development
Scaffolding
Cooperative learning

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