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Worksheetscognitive development
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
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
To help in the ZPD the teacher must use
scaffolding
student goal setting
continuous help
independent practice
Which of the following concepts undergirds Vygotsky’s perspective on learning?
Assimilation and proximity
Adaptation and equilibrium
Culture and Language
Adaptation and accommodation
According to Vygotsky, students can benefit from help if:
They are at the stage of concrete operational or higher
Tasks are in their zones of proximal development
Their inner speech is developed past preoperational
They are capable of transformation and reversibility
Which one of the following best illustrates a student working in his or her zone of proximal development?
Logan, a ninth grader, uses correct grammar and punctuation when he writes persuasive essays.
Seth has trouble balancing chemical equations. His teacher sat with him and offered assistance, but he was still unable to do it. “I just don’t get it,” he comments.
Maya is practicing her serve in tennis. She watched a video that illustrated the correct technique, and she is now attempting to perfect the technique so it will be more effective when she plays.
Sophie is learning to create certain effects with her PowerPoint slides. She can create the effects she wants when her instructor sits with her, but she has trouble on her own.
Vygotsky believes that
learning occurs when learners reaact with others in their social environment
learning is heavily related to the interactions of others
learning occurs in social contexts
learning occurs in specific stages
