Cognitive development and play

Which of these types of play tends to emerge first in infants?

• Associative

• Parallel

• Cooperative

• Symbollic

Vygotsky's theory of cognitive development includes the `Zone of Proximal BLANK`

• Energy

• Support

• Learning

• Development

Object permanence means understanding that something exists even when you cannot see it. Piaget came up with this concept. When did he think a child develops this?

• 18 months old

• 2 years old

• 8 months old

• 4 months old

According to Piaget, when do children understand concepts such as time, space and quantity?

• 2-3 years

• 7-10 years

• 10-12 years

• 4 - 6 years

The benefits of sensory play are...

• Developing attention skills

• Emergence of scientific thinking

• Develops motor skills

• All of these

Children copying others carrying out a play behaviour that has been praised is an example of...

• Reinforcement

• Piaget's Theory

• Social Learning Theory

• Symbollic Play

At around age 7 children learn that the properties of things stay the same even if the appearance changes. e.g. if I squash a ball of play-doh, it is still the same amount of playdoh. What is this called?

• Accommodation

• Assimilation

• Conservation

• Organisation

Children tend to think about their own perspective until around age 4/5... they are...

• Egocentric

• Ethnocentric

• Concrete

• Symbollic