Module 47 and 48 Period 5

According to Piaget, schemas are

• fixed sequences of cognitive developmental stages

• children's ways of coming to terms with their sexuality

• A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information

• problem-solving strategies that are typically not developed until the formal operational stage

Adjusting current schemas to make sense of new information is called

• habituation

• accommodation

• egocentrism

• assimilation

According to Piaget, a child can represent things with words and images but cannot reason with logic during the ________ stage.

• concrete operational

• sensorimotor

• formal operational

• preoperational

The ability of preschool children to empathize with classmates who are feeling sad illustrates that preoperational children have developed

• a sense of integrity

• conventional morality

• a theory of mind

• a concept of conservation

At about 8 months, children become increasingly likely to react to newcomers with tears and distress. This best illustrates

• role confusion

• insecure attachment

• egocentrism

• stranger anxiety

Infant monkeys raised with a nourishing wire mother and a nonnourishing cloth mother

• preferred the nourishing wire mother

• preferred the nonnourishing cloth mother

• showed no preference for one mother over the other

• shifted their initial preference for the wire mother to the cloth mother as they matured

One-year-old Eunice is not overly fearful of strangers but she clearly prefers being held by her mother than by anyone else. Her behavior best illustrates

• habituation

• the rooting reflex

• secure attachment

• conservation

Our enduring personality traits are first evident in our differing

• birth weights

• time asleep versus time awake

• gender schemas

• temperaments

What kind of parenting style can be described as coercive, impose rules and expect obedience

• permissive

• authoritative

• authoritarian

Gilbert notices that his sausage is sliced into six pieces, whereas his brother's is sliced into nine pieces. He understands, however, that his brother's sausage is not actually any larger than his own. This indicates that Gilbert has by now reached the ________ stage of development

• sensorimotor

• preoperational

• concrete operational

• formal operational