THEORIES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

1. Child development theories focus on:

• emotional development

• explaining how children change and grow

• emotional and cognitive growth

• social and emotional children process

2. Some major development theories are: (select three)

• sensory development

• emotional development

• Cognitive development

• Social learning development

• Attachment theory

3. Who talks about cognitive development theory?

• Vygotsky

• Freud

• Bandura

• Piaget

4. Who suggested in his theory that that parents, caregivers, peers and the culture at large were responsible for developing higher-order functions.

• Piaget

• Bandura

• Vygotsky

• Freud

5. Piaget proposed a theory of cognitive development to account for the steps and sequence of children's intellectual development.

• True

• False

6. In the pre-operational stage:

• infant's knowledge of the world is limited to his or her sensory perceptions and motor activities

• Children begin thinking logically about concrete events

• children do not yet understand concrete logic

• people develop the ability to think about abstract concepts

7. The zone of proximal development is:

• it´s what we an do on our own

• it is an step in the emotional development

• represents we can we do with the help with an adult

• none

8. "A teaching method that helps students learn more by working with a teacher or a more advanced student to achieve their learning goals." This is the definition of:

• formal- operational stage

• scaffolding

• sensorimotor stage

• concrete-operational stage

9. Piaget proposed in his theory:

• three stages

• four stages

• two stages

• five stages

10. "Children think differently than adults." It is an idea of:

• Bandura´s theory

• Piaget´s theory

• Vygotsky´s theory

• Freud´s theory