chapter 6

According to Piaget, ____________ is the process in which people understand an experience in terms of their current stage of cognitive development and way of thinking.

• scheme

• assimilation

• accommodation

• concept

According to Piaget, ____________ is an act in which children imitate a person who is no longer present.

• deferred imitation

• delayed imitation

• deferred modeling

• delayed modeling

According to Piaget, ____________ is the result of making changes in our existing ways of thinking, and it occurs in response to encounters with new stimuli or events.

• scheme

• assimilation

• accommodation

• concept

An approach to cognitive development that seeks to identify the way that individuals take in, use, and sort information is called the ____________ approach.

• data processing

• information processing

• cognitive processing

• mental processing

Before an infant has understood the idea of ____________, he will not search for an object that has been hidden right before his eyes.

• object stability

• object mobility

• object permanence

• object constancy

Memory that is recalled unconsciously is called ____________ memory.

• explicit

• implicit

• exact

• approximate

Piaget believed that the basic building blocks of the way we understand the world are mental structures called _____________, organized patterns of functioning that adapt and change with mental development.

• schemes

• assimilation

• accommodation

• concepts

Piaget's stage theory is composed of a series of four universal stages that occur in a fixed order from birth through adolescence and are, in chronological order,

•   formal operational; concrete operational; preoperational; and sensorimotor.

•   sensorimotor; preoperational; concrete operational; and formal operational.

•   sensorimotor; formal operational; preoperational; and concrete operational.

•   sensorimotor; formal operational; concrete operational; and preoperational.

Speech that leaves out words that are not critical to the message is known as

•   telegraphic speech.

•   telegram speech.

•   telephone speech.

•   telepicture speech.

The ability to identify a stimulus that previously has been experienced only through one sense by using another sense is referred to as

• bi model transference

• underextension

• overextension

•   cross-modal transference.