Development part 1

One function of the brain stem is ...

• Memory

• Perception

• Senosory

• Attention

The 'hub' of the brain is the ...

• Thalamus

• Cerebellum

• Cortex

• Brain stem

Thinking occurs in the ...

• Cortex

• Hippocampus

• Hypothalamus

• Cerebellum

Nurture's influence on brain development includes ...

• Inherited characteristics

• Genes

• Infections

• Hormones

Piaget's theory is a theory of ...

• Personality deveopment

• Cognitive development

• Physical development

• Moral development

A mental representation of our knowledge of the world is ...

• A schema

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

• Cognitive development

Learning Weetabix is another type of cereal is an example of ...

• Accommodation

• Assimilation

• Motor processing

• Sensorimotor functioning

A weakness of Piaget's theory is ...

• No research evidence

• Based on a limited sample of children

• No applications to real life

• It is old-fashioned

Piaget's experiment involving counters demonstrated ...

• Assimilation

• Conservation of volume

• Conservation of number

• Accommodation

A finding from McGarrigle and Donaldson's study was ...

• Naughty teddy transformed the display

• 34% of children gave the wrong answer

• 72% of children gave the right answer if the change was deliberate

• Primary age children performed better than nursery age children