Module 44 Vocab

Which is the correct definition for Maturation?

• all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

• a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.

• interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas.

• adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information

• biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience

Which is the correct definition for Cognition?

• all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

• a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.

• a framework that offers children temporary support as they develop higher levels of thinking.

• stage during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities.

• people’s ideas about their own and others’ mental states—about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts, and the behaviors these might predict.

Which is the correct definition for Schemas?

• interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas.

• the stage (from about 2 to 6 or 7 years of age) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic.

• a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.

• a disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by significant deficiencies in communication and social interaction, and by rigidly fixated interests and repetitive behaviors.

• that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects

Which is the correct definition for Assimilate?

• disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by significant deficiencies in communication and social interaction, and by rigidly fixated interests and repetitive behaviors.

• adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information

• a framework that offers children temporary support as they develop higher levels of thinking.

• the preoperational child’s difficulty taking another’s point of view.

• interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas.

Which is the correct definition for Accommodate?

• the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived.

• adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information

• stage during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities.

• all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

• the stage of cognitive development (from about 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events

Which is the correct definition for Sensorimotor stage?

• stage of cognitive development (normally beginning about age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts.

• stage of cognitive development (from about 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events

• stage during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities.

• stage (from about 2 to 6 or 7 years of age) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic.

• that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects

Which is the correct definition for Object Permanence?

• people’s ideas about their own and others’ mental states—about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts, and the behaviors these might predict.

• that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects

• the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived.

• stage of cognitive development (normally beginning about age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts.

Which is the correct definition for Preoperational Stage?

• stage (from about 2 to 6 or 7 years of age) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic.

• that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects

• people’s ideas about their own and others’ mental states—about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts, and the behaviors these might predict.

• a framework that offers children temporary support as they develop higher levels of thinking.

Which is the correct definition for Conservation?

• biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience

• the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived.

• a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.

• that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects

• all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

Which is the correct definition for Egocentric?

• a disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by significant deficiencies in communication and social interaction, and by rigidly fixated interests and repetitive behaviors.

• a framework that offers children temporary support as they develop higher levels of thinking.

• people’s ideas about their own and others’ mental states—about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts, and the behaviors these might predict.

• that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects

• in Piaget’s theory, the preoperational child’s difficulty taking another’s point of view.