1. A young child may pretend to be an aeroplane by holding his arms out to either side of his body and parallel to the ground and making "jet engine" sounds with his mouth while running. These uses of the body to represent an aeroplane are called
Signifiers
Sign stimuli
Signals
Signs
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2. Through accommodation, infants
Apply existing information to new information
Compensate for their lack of experience in communicating their needs to others
Modify existing schemata to fit new information
Transform new knowledge to fit existing schemata
3. One result of a child's new ability to form mental representations of the actions he or she has seen others perform is
Object permanence
Deferred imitation
Conservation
Assimilation
4. Nine month old infants can recognise a stimulus successfully after a delay of between _____ seconds
65-85
50-60
90-160
200-300
5. Piaget studied cognitive development mainly by
Observing children as they solved problems
Borrowing concepts from psychoanalysis
Conducting cross-sectional research studies
Observing the interactions between children and their caregivers
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