Psych 355 Gelman Umich Exam 1 UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Piaget - CORRECT ANSWER invented the study of cognitive development
Nativism - CORRECT ANSWER knowledge is inborn (innate reflexes like rooting, plantar)
Empiricism - CORRECT ANSWER knowledge is built up from one's experiences (behaviourist
training: training rat to jump through hoops)
Constructivism - CORRECT ANSWER -knowledge is constructed by child through their
interaction with the world
-interaction between mind and world
Commutativity - CORRECT ANSWER no matter how you add up the numbers, they'll always add
up to the same amount
Assimilation - CORRECT ANSWER fitting what you come across to match what you think you
know (baby sees a candle, but assimilates it to think of it as a ball and throws it)
Accommodation - CORRECT ANSWER adjusting your concept to accommodate to the new
experience (baby notices that the candle has a thread and decides it's not a ball)
Equilibration - CORRECT ANSWER process of balancing assimilation and accommodation to
reach a higher level of understanding
Piaget's stages of cognitive development - CORRECT ANSWER 1. sensorimotor (0-2)
2. preoperational (2-7)
, 3. concrete operational (7-11)
4. formal operational (11+)
Sensorimotor - CORRECT ANSWER -babies learn, explore, test out hypotheses
-little Einsteins
Object permanence - CORRECT ANSWER 0-1 month: no searching
1-4: no searching, but will look
4-8: uncovers partially hidden object
Preoperational - CORRECT ANSWER -means-ends problem solving (using cloth to pull shopping
cart)
-symbolic thought (differed imitation; language)
Differed imitation - CORRECT ANSWER child sees something occur at one point in time, then
imitates after some time has passed (a few days or a week)
Conservation - CORRECT ANSWER of numbers, liquid, mass
Perspective-taking (egocentrism) - CORRECT ANSWER can't see things from other people's
perspectives
Seriation - CORRECT ANSWER stacking blocks from biggest to smallest
Class inclusion - CORRECT ANSWER do kids understand that they can include oranges in the
class of fruit? ("are there more oranges or fruit?")
Concrete operational - CORRECT ANSWER -pass the conservation test
-not just right answers, but sophisticated answers
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Piaget - CORRECT ANSWER invented the study of cognitive development
Nativism - CORRECT ANSWER knowledge is inborn (innate reflexes like rooting, plantar)
Empiricism - CORRECT ANSWER knowledge is built up from one's experiences (behaviourist
training: training rat to jump through hoops)
Constructivism - CORRECT ANSWER -knowledge is constructed by child through their
interaction with the world
-interaction between mind and world
Commutativity - CORRECT ANSWER no matter how you add up the numbers, they'll always add
up to the same amount
Assimilation - CORRECT ANSWER fitting what you come across to match what you think you
know (baby sees a candle, but assimilates it to think of it as a ball and throws it)
Accommodation - CORRECT ANSWER adjusting your concept to accommodate to the new
experience (baby notices that the candle has a thread and decides it's not a ball)
Equilibration - CORRECT ANSWER process of balancing assimilation and accommodation to
reach a higher level of understanding
Piaget's stages of cognitive development - CORRECT ANSWER 1. sensorimotor (0-2)
2. preoperational (2-7)
, 3. concrete operational (7-11)
4. formal operational (11+)
Sensorimotor - CORRECT ANSWER -babies learn, explore, test out hypotheses
-little Einsteins
Object permanence - CORRECT ANSWER 0-1 month: no searching
1-4: no searching, but will look
4-8: uncovers partially hidden object
Preoperational - CORRECT ANSWER -means-ends problem solving (using cloth to pull shopping
cart)
-symbolic thought (differed imitation; language)
Differed imitation - CORRECT ANSWER child sees something occur at one point in time, then
imitates after some time has passed (a few days or a week)
Conservation - CORRECT ANSWER of numbers, liquid, mass
Perspective-taking (egocentrism) - CORRECT ANSWER can't see things from other people's
perspectives
Seriation - CORRECT ANSWER stacking blocks from biggest to smallest
Class inclusion - CORRECT ANSWER do kids understand that they can include oranges in the
class of fruit? ("are there more oranges or fruit?")
Concrete operational - CORRECT ANSWER -pass the conservation test
-not just right answers, but sophisticated answers
