Modules 47 and 48 Period 8

Interpreting new experiences in terms of existing schemas is called

• egocentrism

• assimilation

• imprinting

• attachment

During which of Piaget's stages does a person develop an awareness that things continue to exist even when they are not perceived?

• sensorimotor

• preoperational

• concrete operational

• formal operational

The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects is called

• perceptual constancy

• object equivalence

• conservation

• object permanence

According to Piaget, children acquire the mental operations needed to comprehend such things as mathematical transformations and conservation during the ________ stage.

• sensorimotor

• preoperational

• concrete operational

• formal operational

The powerful survival impulse that leads infants to seek closeness to their caregivers is called

• attachment

• imprinting

• habituation

• assimilation

A critical period is a phase during which

• children frequently disobey and resist their parents

• children become able to think hypothetically and reason abstractly

• parents frequently show impatience with a child's slowness in becoming toilet trained

• certain events have a particularly strong impact on development

Instead of happily exploring the attractive toys located in the pediatrician's waiting room, little Sandra tenaciously clings to her mother's skirt. Sandra most clearly shows signs of

• habituation

• egocentrisim

• insecure attachment

• conservation

The labels “easy,” “difficult,” and “slow-to-warm-up,” are used to refer to differences in an infant's

• gender schema

• assimilation

• temperament

• gender typing

A child's temperament is likely to be

• difficult to observe

• stable over time

• a product of parenting style

• a reflection of gender schema

Children who cannot recognize that the quantity of a substance remains the same despite changes in its shape have not yet reached ____________________ stage

• optimism

• object permanence

• egocentrisim

• conservation