Chapter 5

Scale errors refer to

• Children weighing themselves inaccurately

• The size of the infant brain in contrast to the size of their bodies

• Things such as the two rooms with model sized representations

Answer explanation

Remember from the video with Deloache. The children were able to (or not able to depending on age) make a connection between things within the two rooms of different sizes

Select the one that is not one of the 4 stages in cognitive development

• latent operational

• Sensorimotor 

• preoperational

• concrete operational

Answer explanation

Straight from the notes. Latent operational is not a thing

Assimilation is

• integration of new experiences into existing schemes

• non-existing schemes must be modified to incorporate new information

• new experiences are not readily incorporated into existing schemes.

Answer explanation

Remember assimilation means new and old collide.

New experiences + existing schemes = Assimilation

Egocentricity is the idea that

Answer explanation

Just like the word "ego" implies, babies think its all about them.

Cons of Piaget's theory of cognitive development include?

• First attempts to explain, rather than describe, behavior

• Many adults are not formal operational thinkers, may not be universal

• Object permanence, imitation, symbolic thinking, perspective taking

• Stages aren’t global, qualitative or invariant

Answer explanation

All of the other listed options are part of the pros list for Piaget's theory.

4 major factors that in Cognitive Development​

Animism

• Watching tv and feeling as if you are a character from the show

• Giving human-like qualities to nonhuman things

• Giving animal-like qualities to nonhuman things

• Giving nonhuman-like qualities to nonhuman things

Answer explanation

This is a part of folk biology. Is it alive?

Sociodramatic play is

Answer explanation

Other factors of sociodramatic play:

involves increasingly elaborate and coordinated narratives.

beginning about 3 years

Duration and quality of young children’s pretend play often increases when parents participate.

Object permanence is a part of which stage

• Sensorimotor

• Preoperational

• Concrete operations

• Formal operations

Answer explanation

Refer back to the stages if this stumped you

causal dependence:

• how often does the same action not cause a change

• direct manipulations on objects

• patterns of correlation among events

• how often does one object’s actions cause a change in another object

Answer explanation

Though all of these are relevant to the class only one defines casual dependence