Child Psychology Quiz 1 (30 MCQs)

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1. Piaget proposed learning activities should promote cognitive exploration and encourage schema re organization. This approach is called ..... learning
2. Sternberg's Triarchic theory proposes that successful intelligence is composed of ..... abilities.
3. His theory as it has allowed for the idea that there is more than one way to define a person's intellect
4. When a child reaches a vocabulary of about 200-250 words they begin combining words into ..... sentences composed of two or three high content words
5. Preschoolers are able to hold more information in ..... memory so they can think through a set of steps necessary for better planning.
6. Basic cells of the nervous system
7. In language learning children can deal with words entirely on a ..... plane, learning from definitions.
8. ..... is the inability to recall most things that happened to us before the age of three years.
9. Parenting Styles:Parents who are highly demanding and highly responsive are .....
10. In a ..... classroom learning occurs through participating in challenging activities with teachers and peers.
11. Adolescents show a ....., although they can reason scientifically they tend to apply logic effectively to ideas they doubt more than they do to ideas they favor.
12. Responsible for the Theory of Cognitive Development
13. What concepts are important in language?
14. Results in happy, capable children
15. What principle states the simple skills typically develop separately and independently, but these simple skills are intergrated into more complex skills
16. Action = knowledge
17. A period of time after birth in which bonding with the caregivers will take place.
18. A child with ..... disorder is inattentive, impuslive and exhibits excessive motor behavior.
19. A lack of control or independence can make them feel like failures and cause shame and doubt.
20. Rooting reflexinfants response in turning towards the source
21. The study of changes that occur as an individual matures is called .....
22. In what stage do they learn object permanence in Piaget's theory?
23. An important advance in cognitive ability is ..... this is when the infant recognizes that words can be used as cues for mental images of things not present.
24. Process where experiences that do not stimulate certain nerve connections, like unused neurons, are eliminated
25. The principle that a given quantity does not change when its appearance is changed
26. Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD):Level that a children can learn with help
27. Was Genie able to learn language?
28. What are 3 and 4 year olds typically not learning yet?
29. Jim doesn't cheat of his taxes because he knows how disappointed his parents would be if they found out. He is in the ..... stage of moral development.
30. By age 3 1/2 to 4 years children should be able to count to 10 and grasp the principle of ....., the recognition that the last number counted is the quantity