Human Growth and Development Part 2

The greatest gains in visual acuity occur

• from birth to 6 months

• from 1 to 2 months

• from 9 to 12 months

• from 12 to 18 months

Once motor development has been deprived

• the damage can be improved with intervention

• the damage is irreversible although minimal progress can be made

• social and intellectual functioning will decline as well

• primitive reflexes will prevail throughout life

Improvement in memory probably indicates

• reduced encoding of information

• increased inefficiency in retrieving stored information

• lower quality foods and a less nutritional diet

• increased experiences with the environment

Which of the following is NOT a stage of cognitive development according to Piaget?

• Sensorimotor

• Hypothetical

• Concrete operational

• Preoperational

Piaget believed that

• development is haphazard, random, and based on experience

• cognitive developments are stage-based and universal

• children learn in different sequences based on their environment

• perception is too directly linked to sensation to separate the two

Memory for events that happened in one’s life is called

• hedonistic memory

• egocentric memory

• autobiographical memory

• self-centered memory

With cognitive scaffolding

• children are taught complex tasks so that easier ones are more readily understood

• the guidance provided is decreased as the child becomes more skilled

• the child becomes dependent upon the permanent help that is given

• the amount of help given is increased as the child ages

A preoperational child would assume that

• taller glasses hold more than short glasses.

• objects that are out of sight have ceased to exist.

• subtraction is easier than addition

• substance comes before form.

When does “pretend play” usually appear?

• By about age 6 months

• By about 9 months

• By 12 to 18 months of age

• Sometime early in the second year

A key component of information processing views of cognitive development includes

• expansive attention

• random retrieval processes

• intuitive grasping of environmental cues

• selective attention processes