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Development part 1

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

One function of the brain stem is ...

a)

Memory

b)

Perception

c)

Senosory

d)

Attention

2.

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

a)

Thalamus

b)

Cerebellum

c)

Cortex

d)

Brain stem

3.

Thinking occurs in the ...

a)

Cortex

b)

Hippocampus

c)

Hypothalamus

d)

Cerebellum

4.

Nurture's influence on brain development includes ...

a)

Inherited characteristics

b)

Genes

c)

Infections

d)

Hormones

5.

Piaget's theory is a theory of ...

a)

Personality deveopment

b)

Cognitive development

c)

Physical development

d)

Moral development

6.

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

a)

A schema

b)

Assimilation

c)

Accommodation

d)

Cognitive development

7.

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

a)

Accommodation

b)

Assimilation

c)

Motor processing

d)

Sensorimotor functioning

8.

A weakness of Piaget's theory is ...

a)

No research evidence

b)

Based on a limited sample of children

c)

No applications to real life

d)

It is old-fashioned

9.

Piaget's experiment involving counters demonstrated ...

a)

Assimilation

b)

Conservation of volume

c)

Conservation of number

d)

Accommodation

10.

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

a)

Naughty teddy transformed the display

b)

34% of children gave the wrong answer

c)

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

d)

Primary age children performed better than nursery age children

11.

McGarrigle and Donaldson concluded that ...

a)

Piaget was wrong to suggest children's thinking changes with age

b)

Children cannot conserve number until they are at least six years old

c)

Most five year old children cannot conserve number

d)

Piaget underestimated children's ability to conserve number

12.

A weakness of McGarrigle and Donaldson's study was that ...

a)

Too many children were tested

b)

The children may not have noticed a change had taken place

c)

Task wasn't like real life

d)

It wasn't well controlled