Topic 12: Cognitive development (PS111 test 2)

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1. According to IPA when your basic resources improve, what improves?

  • Social skills improve, capacity of working memory increases, inhibition improves
  • Social skills improve, problem solving skills improve, theory of mind improves
  • Processing speed increases, capacity of working memory increases, inhibition improves
  • Processing speed increases, problem solving skills improve, theory of mind improves
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2. What is object permanence?

  • The understanding that objects exist because of other peoples actions
  • The understanding that an object only exists because of your actions
  • The understanding that objects exist independent of your actions
  • The understanding that objects sometimes exist and sometimes they don't

3. What do infants remember during the Sensorimotor stage?

  • What they have just done (actions), not what they have just seen
  • Nothing
  • What they have just seen, not what they have just done
  • What they have seen and done

4. What is Piaget's theory?

  • The child's mind is a self-improving machine
  • A child is an individual seeker and maker of meaning
  • A child's mind is made from working together
  • The child's mind is born perfect and stays that way forever

5. According to Vygotsky thinking starts ____ individuals and cognition is ___ first.

  • between, about instincts
  • apart from other, about movement
  • between, social
  • in relation to, about problem solving
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