What is the Definition of Cognition in this chapter?

• Lack of Thought or inhibited thought

• The ability to judge well

• The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.

• anxiety or fear that something bad or unpleasant will happen

How many principles does Piaget's theory have?

• 7

• 4

• 6

• 5

What is the order of the 4 Stages of Cognitive Development?

• Sensorimotor, Formal Operations, Preoperational, Concrete Operational

• Formal Operations, Concrete Operational, Sensorimotor, Preoperational

• Formal Operations, Concrete Operational, Preoperational, Sensorimotor

• Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, Formal Operations

What are 2 of Piaget's principles of his theory?

• Children are not energetic learners

• Interaction with other people is crucial

• Children adapt to new information.

• The process of equilibration generates increasingly advanced thinking.

• Children do not organize what they learn into cohesive understandings

In which stage does object permanence occur?

• Preoperational

• Sensorimotor

• Concrete Operational

• Formal Operational

In which stage does egocentrism occur?

• Sensorimotor

• Formal Operational

• Concrete Operational

• Preoperational

What ideas do children in the Concrete Operational Stage have a hard time understanding?

• Logical

• Abstract or hypothetical

• Innate

• Cookie Cutter

Piaget suggested that adolescent idealism reflects....

• understand the nature of proportions and correctly use them when working on problems.

• becoming capable of dealing with increasingly complex conservation tasks

• the recognition that an object can belong both to a particular category and to one of its subcategories simultaneously.

• an inability to separate abstractions from practical considerations and the perspectives of others

What is one key idea of Non-Piagetian Theories?

• Children acquire new knowledge through both intentional and unintentional learning processes.

• Cognitive development is not constrained by neurologically-based information-processing mechanism

• abilities that enable children to identify cause and effect relationships in physical phenomena.

Which Neo-Piagetian Theorist proposed the theory of executive control and central conceptional structures?

• Robbie Case

• Annette Karmiloff Smith