Cognitive Development Theories
This philosophy emphasizes 'nature' or innate knowledge when it comes to the nature-nurture theme.
Nativism
Social referencing typically appears around the age of
10 months
The fact that a finite number of grammatical rules can generate an infinite number of sentences is known as
Generativity
The proportion of variance in a population that is attributable to genetic variance is known as
Heritability
Fraternal twins arise from this combination of ova and sperm
Two ova; Two sperm
According to Piaget, a child moving from the concrete operational stage to the formal operations stage will develop this new ability
Systematic problem solving
Children who understand that others have emotions, perceptions, beliefs, desires, and intentions are said to have developed
Theory of Mind
Missing articles, prepositions, endings, tense markings, and plurals are involved in the language common in 18-month-olds known as
Telegraphic speech
As part of an IQ test, a child is asked to repeat the sequence 5, 2, 8, 4, 6 back to the tester. This is specifically testing the child's
Working memory
Chess experts are better at remembering a chess board configuration than beginners because they have more _______
Content knowledge
The idea that children are intent on participating in activities in their local setting is most consistent with ideology of which theorist
Vygotsky
The Sally-Ann Task (wherein Sally hides an object and leaves the room, and then Ann moves the object) is designed to test conscious understanding of this concept
False beliefs
"My house is filled with mouses" is an example of this type of language in children
Overregularization
If a researcher wants to study the heritability of IQ, they would design a study that compares the correlation between ________ and _________
MZ twins and DZ twins
Infant’s ability to recognize small numerosities of objects or events without language refers to _______
Subitization
Encoding is the ability to
Perceive features of a stimulus and represent them in the mind
Children's involvement in structured activities with others who are more skilled/knowledgable is known as
Guided participation
____ demonstrate(s) that children learn grammatical rules rather than imitating sentences
Berko's wug test
The Flynn Effect disproved this scientific controversy
Eugenics
Saffran et al’s (1996) experiment (golabupadotitupiro…) showed that infants could keep track of ________
Statistical information
Piaget’s pendulum problem illustrates children’s ability (or failure) at
Systematic or deductive reasoning
In the goldfish/broccoli experiment, researchers observed this behavior in the "different" condition when studying 14-month olds
Babies’ first words typically include these two types of speech/grammar
Common nouns and proper nouns
If the heritability of IQ in the United States is about 50%, what would the predicted heritability be in Singapore
Trick question - there is no way to predict it, because heritability cannot be generalized from one population to another
Baldwin’s discrepant labeling experiment showed that, when it comes to mapping word meanings, 15-month-old toddlers
Require joint attention