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Children and Their Development Study Set 1
Quiz 6: Theories of Cognitive Development
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Question 161
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Children's naïve theories of biology are composed of six elements: movement,growth,internal parts,inheritance,illness,and healing.
Question 162
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Infants' early understandings of objects and their principles are known as a naïve theory of physics.
Question 163
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Infants are incapable of realizing that objects move along connected,continuous paths and that objects cannot move through other objects.
Question 164
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A 4-year-old is not capable of realizing that a baby pig that is adopted by a cow would grow up to look and behave like a pig.
Question 165
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Piaget claimed that understanding of objects develops slowly,however,modern researchers have shown that babies understand objects much earlier than Piaget claimed.
Question 166
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Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)grasp false beliefs tasks as quickly as children without ASD.
Question 167
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A fundamental part of young children's theory of living things is the belief that living things and parts of living things exist for a purpose.
Question 168
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Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)find hidden objects faster than typically developing children do,but this emphasis on perceptual details usually comes at the expense of maintaining a coherent overall picture.
Question 169
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Unlike adults,4-year-old children do not understand that animals grow (get physically bigger and more complex),but that inanimate objects do not change in this way.
Question 170
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Describe three important characteristics of preoperational thinking.
Question 171
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Baillargeon found that infants as young as 2 months showed object permanence in that they consistently looked longer at an unrealistic event than a realistic one.
Question 172
Essay
Name and describe the four stages of Piaget's theory.
Question 173
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Essentialism is children's belief that all living things have an essence that can't be seen but gives a living thing its identity.
Question 174
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After the preschool years,children's naïve psychology moves beyond theory of mind and embraces an ever-expanding range of psychological phenomena,including understanding the links among emotions,thought,and behavior.