cognitive development

This idea is why peek-a-boo works with babies

• Imprinting

• Representational thought

• Accommodation

• Object Permanance

How new ideas fit into existing schemas

• Conservation

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

• Schema

Understanding that quantity stays the same despite the shape.

• Object permanence

• egocentrism

• Schema

• Conservation

An infant who has developed object permanence...

• knows that an object, such as a rattle, exists even if it is not in view.

• is attached to specific objects, such as a blanket.

• will see all objects as being the same.

• cries when a wanted object is taken away.

According to Piaget, children come to understand that the volume of a substance remains constant despite changes in its shape during the ________ stage.

• sensorimotor

• preoperational

• formal operational

• concrete operational

Cindy understands her world primarily by grasping and sucking easily available objects. Cindy is clearly in Piaget's ________ stage

• preoperational

• concrete operational

• sensorimotor

• formal operational

From a Vygotskian perspective, scaffolding serves what purpose in instruction?

• It keeps school tasks within students’ actual developmental levels.

• It supports students as they perform difficult tasks.

• It gives students an idea of what they need to do to get good grades.

• It lets students learn by watching one another.

This theorist’s major contribution was the idea of the Zone of Proximal Development

• Piaget

• Erikson

• Vygotsky

• Maslow

________________ is a term Paiget used to represent the building blocks of knowledge.

• Assimilation

• Assimilation

• Equilibration

• Schema

The ZPD is between

• What the learner can do with help and what the learner cannot do

• What the learner can do on their own and what the learner will be able to do on their own

• What the learner can do on their own and what they can do with help