Developmental Psyc Test 2

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The zone of proximal development (ZPD) is Vygotsky’s term for

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The range of tasks that are too difficult for a child to master alone but can be learned with guidance and assistance from adults or more-skilled children.

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The inability to distinguish between one’s own perspective and someone else’s perspective is known as

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Egocentrism

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Which of the following refers to teachers’ adjustment of their level of support and guidance to the level of the skills of their students? Accommodation, Regulation, Scaffolding, Assimilation

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Scaffolding

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In general, conservation involves the ability to understand that changing an object’s appearance

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does not change its basic properties.

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A 5-year-old girl participates in a laboratory experiment in which random alphabets are rapidly read out to her. After 20 seconds, she is asked to recall those alphabets. In the context of information processing, this experiment has been conducted to assess the girl's

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Short term memory

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Which of the following statements is true regarding Piaget’s preoperational stage of cognitive development?
- In this stage, a child can perform operations independently without adult supervision
- In this stage, children begin to represent the world with words, images, and drawings
- This stage lasts from approximately 3 months to 2 years of age
- This stage involves the ability to use deductive reasoning

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In this stage, children begin to represent the world with words, images, and drawings

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Identify a characteristic of autobiographical memory

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It involves memory of significant events and experiences in one’s life.

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Theory of _____ refers to awareness of one’s own mental processes and the mental processes of others

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Mind

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_____ refers to an umbrella-like concept that consists of a number of higher-level cognitive processes linked to the development of the brain's prefrontal cortex, which play a role in managing thoughts to engage in goal-directed behavior and self-control.

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Executive function

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Researchers have found that in children from 3 to 6 years of age the most rapid growth takes place in the ____ lobe areas of the brain

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Frontal