Piaget Chapter
Lily learned how to give her dog a bath by helping her mother give the dog a bath in the past. Lily has learned this skill through what?
Guided Participation
Of the following, which ability most reflects fluid intelligence?
Attention to detail
What type of intelligence relies on tried, true, and reliable methods?
Practical
Learning a second language ____.
Changes the way we organize our cognition
We try out new strategies all the time. What should determine when we keep one?
Whether it works or not
In one study, 2 1/2-year-olds were unable to use a scale model of a room to find a toy hidden in the room that the model represented. This is because young preschoolers have difficulty with what?
Working with symbols
Which of the following would not support a rise in creativity?
Desire to fit in
Crystallized intelligence refers to skills that depend on ____.
Knowledge of facts and history
Which of the following statements, based on actual research, explains why newborns are particularly sensitive to their mother's voice?
By the time they are born, they have more experience with their mother than anyone else.
When does the “processing” component take place during information processing?
In the middle, with memory, strategies, planning, logic, etc.
Two-year-old Viola calls her father's swimming goggles "glasses." According to Piaget's theory, Viola is most likely____.
Assimilating
The first intelligence tests were what?
Intentionally Biased
Jack and Jake are fraternal twins who were reared together. Tom and Tim are identical twins who were reared apart. Based on prior research, one would expect the IQ correlation to be ____.
Higher for Tom and Tim than for Jack and Jake
Why does child directed speech work so well to teach language?
It highlights the important elements of the speech stream
A central goal of the information-processing approach is to ____.
Study processes that lead to behavior
Piaget believed that the major benefit of make-believe play during the preoperational stage is to ____.
Practice Schemes
The goal of Binet and Simon's original intelligence test was to ____.
Create a test that could be used to identify and help underperforming children
If you wanted to learn language fast and well, how would you do it?
Go to that country, with some background within the language, and talk to the locals.
For the interactionist approach to language acquisition to work, ____.
In the store model of memory, what is taken into the sensory store?
Everything coming in through the five senses.
Baby Ray accidentally pushes over a tower of blocks. Each time his sister rebuilds the tower, Ray tries to push it over. In Piaget's theory, this is an example of a __________ circular reaction.
Secondary
According to Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, an individual demonstrating high spatial understanding would perform well as a ____.
Navigator
Based on her experience with young infants, a trained caregiver wonders if children are born with built-in linguistic rules that apply to all human languages. This caregiver is pondering the concept of ____.
Universal Grammar
Skinner proposed that language, like any other behavior, is acquired through what?
Through operant conditioning
In the memory store model, visual sensations become inputs that ____.
Enter at the sensory register and are stored for a few seconds