PSYCH 101 EXAM #4 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Playing Chutes and Ladders gives children opportunity to be exposed to spatial,
kinesthetic, verbal, and time-based cues on the size of numbers. Understanding the
properties that indicate the size of numbers is also known as what? - ANSWER -
Numerical magnitudes
Children's _______________ in pre-K and Kindergarten is the strongest predictor of
reading ability in third and fourth grade. - ANSWER -Phonemic awareness
Davina attends school regularly and has made great strides in her understanding of
material in her science classes. Being able to reason more like a mature adult, Davina
is in which of Piaget's developmental stages? - ANSWER -Formal operational
If a boy believed that the only variable that affected the distance a ball traveled when
thrown was the force with which it was thrown and then conducted a biased
"experiment" that proved his assumption which developmental phenomenon according
to Piaget is involved? - ANSWER -Concrete operations
Piaget's stage theory can be described as which of the following? - ANSWER -
Discontinuous and qualitative
Meika explores her environment by crawling to a new toy and putting it in her mouth.
Which stage of Piaget's cognitive development model is she demonstrating? - ANSWER
-Sensorimotor
One element that shapes personality is temperament, which is related to self-regulation
and is: - ANSWER -Biologically based
When Rachel, a toddler, visits a neighbor's home with her mother, she explores the
room where the adults are sitting, but she will not leave the room. When her mother
leaves to inspect the garden, she gets agitated and later rushes to her immediately
when mother returns. Rachel's behavior demonstrates _____ attachment. - ANSWER -
secure
What do information processing theories focus on? - ANSWER -Describing the
cognitive processes that underlie thinking at any one age and cognitive growth over
time
According to Piaget, the developmental processes that explain children's cognitive
development are measured by: - ANSWER -How children reason, with fundamental
changes tin thinking occurring in each stage
ANSWERS
Playing Chutes and Ladders gives children opportunity to be exposed to spatial,
kinesthetic, verbal, and time-based cues on the size of numbers. Understanding the
properties that indicate the size of numbers is also known as what? - ANSWER -
Numerical magnitudes
Children's _______________ in pre-K and Kindergarten is the strongest predictor of
reading ability in third and fourth grade. - ANSWER -Phonemic awareness
Davina attends school regularly and has made great strides in her understanding of
material in her science classes. Being able to reason more like a mature adult, Davina
is in which of Piaget's developmental stages? - ANSWER -Formal operational
If a boy believed that the only variable that affected the distance a ball traveled when
thrown was the force with which it was thrown and then conducted a biased
"experiment" that proved his assumption which developmental phenomenon according
to Piaget is involved? - ANSWER -Concrete operations
Piaget's stage theory can be described as which of the following? - ANSWER -
Discontinuous and qualitative
Meika explores her environment by crawling to a new toy and putting it in her mouth.
Which stage of Piaget's cognitive development model is she demonstrating? - ANSWER
-Sensorimotor
One element that shapes personality is temperament, which is related to self-regulation
and is: - ANSWER -Biologically based
When Rachel, a toddler, visits a neighbor's home with her mother, she explores the
room where the adults are sitting, but she will not leave the room. When her mother
leaves to inspect the garden, she gets agitated and later rushes to her immediately
when mother returns. Rachel's behavior demonstrates _____ attachment. - ANSWER -
secure
What do information processing theories focus on? - ANSWER -Describing the
cognitive processes that underlie thinking at any one age and cognitive growth over
time
According to Piaget, the developmental processes that explain children's cognitive
development are measured by: - ANSWER -How children reason, with fundamental
changes tin thinking occurring in each stage
