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6. Which is the third substage of Piaget's Sensorimotor stage of development?

  • Primary circular reactions
  • Secondary circular reactions
  • Beginning of thought
  • Tertiary circular reactions

7. The pendulum task is used to test what?

  • Hypothetic-deductive reasoning
  • Animism
  • Trial and error behaviour
  • Egocentricism

8. Infants use their head to turn on a light after observing an adult do the same with free hands, but use their hands after observing an adult do the same with tied hands. This is called...

  • emulatory rationalisation
  • reasonable imitation
  • rational imitation
  • emulatory imitation

9. Which term describes the tendency to focus on one attribute at a time?

  • Vertical decalage
  • Centration
  • Horizontal decalage
  • Animism

10. According to the core knowledge theory, how would infants in the Saskialulu tribe differ in reasoning tasks to western infants?

  • It would depend on the social-cognitive structure of the tribe
  • They wouldn't
  • They would be better at tasks that were relevant to their day-to-day lives, but may underperform on abstract tasks
  • It would be influenced by the gender of the child and the gender of their primary caregiver