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6. What was the IV in Piaget study?

  • How many coins were used
  • How the coins were arranged
  • The age of the children
  • The question they were asked

7. What proportion of adults are thought to never reach the formal operational stage?

  • 1/2
  • 1/3
  • 1/4
  • 3/4

8. What does the human embryo develop 16 days after fertilisation?

  • Neural tube
  • A brain
  • Synapses
  • Neurons

9. The child is no longer egocentric by which stage?

  • Pre-operational
  • Concrete operational
  • Sensori-motor
  • Formal operational

10. What did Dweck say that children should be praised for?

  • Effort
  • Achievement
  • Speed
  • Talent

11. In which stage of development does the limbic system mature?

  • Adulthood
  • Childhood
  • Adolescence
  • Prenatal

12. Which area of the brain matures around age 25?

  • Pre-frontal cortex
  • Limbic system
  • Pons
  • Hippocampus

13. "When new information can fit into an existing schema" describes which process?

  • Conservation
  • Assimilation
  • Accomodation
  • Object permanence

14. Which of the following is NOT a learning style?

  • Active
  • Visual
  • Auditory
  • Kinaesthetic

15. Which of the following is true for Blackwell's study 1?

  • Maths achievement caused children to have a better mindset
  • There was a correlation between mindset and maths achievement at the beginning of 7th grade
  • There was a correlation between mindset and maths achievement by the end of 8th grade
  • Mindset caused children to be better at maths