PSYC 2070 EXAM 3 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT Answers
Changes in mental activities, (such as thinking, Cognitive Development
reasoning, problem solving, memory, decision making,
and language,) and how these things change over
child/adulthood.
States that children develop, create, and construct their Piagets Constructivist Theory
understanding of reality by interacting with the
environment.
Three changes that occur during the course of increased organization, increased efficient, and increased mental life
cognitive development.
2 processes to used to make sense out of new assimilation and accommodation
experiences.
Fitting new experiences into our existing understanding Assimilation
of reality.
Changing our existing understanding of reality to make Accommodation
sense out of new experiences.
A time of intelligent behavior before the development sensory-motor period
of language.
what are the stages in the theory of cognitive sensory-motor stage, preoperational stage, concrete operational stage, formal
development (4)? operational stage
refers to the ability to deal more and more with the mental life
world in our head and less of the world in the physical
space around us.
, what are 3 key accomplishments of the sensory motor integration of the 5 senses, ability to display goal directed behavior,
period? development of object permanence
According to Piaget movement from one stage to the Maturation
next is driven by __ not experience.
What is the process of OP? No awareness of OP, Partial object permanence, Doesn't understand visible
displacements, understands visual placements, doesn't understand invisible
displacements, understands invisible displacements, full awareness of object
permanence
A child improves cognitive ability, but not fully mature Preoperational period
cognitive abilities yet. The child becomes capable of
symbolic representation.
capable of carrying the world around in our head; symbolic representation
representing the world through mental symbols (can
think of things that are not in front of him).
the child observes some complex behavior in the world deferred imitation
and later the child imitates the behavior when the
behavior is no longer in front of them.
a child transforms what he has into what he wants it to symbolic play
be through his imagination.
words are symbols for things (child comes to use of Language
understand identities).
the child realizes that some thing keeps its____ , even Identity
though those things may look different from time to
time, but they stay what they are.
the child comes to understand basic relationships Understanding functions
between 2 events that occur together consistently.
limitations of preoperational thought. Realism, animism, centration, irreversibility, focus on states, egocentrism
trouble distinguishing between physical reality and *realism
psychological events.
everything is alive and everything has the same *animism
characteristics as humans.
focus on one aspect on a situation and ignore all other *centration
aspects to that situation.
many actions can be reversed in order to solve *irreversibility
problems.
focus on end products and not the actions involved in *focus on states
getting to the end products.
CORRECT Answers
Changes in mental activities, (such as thinking, Cognitive Development
reasoning, problem solving, memory, decision making,
and language,) and how these things change over
child/adulthood.
States that children develop, create, and construct their Piagets Constructivist Theory
understanding of reality by interacting with the
environment.
Three changes that occur during the course of increased organization, increased efficient, and increased mental life
cognitive development.
2 processes to used to make sense out of new assimilation and accommodation
experiences.
Fitting new experiences into our existing understanding Assimilation
of reality.
Changing our existing understanding of reality to make Accommodation
sense out of new experiences.
A time of intelligent behavior before the development sensory-motor period
of language.
what are the stages in the theory of cognitive sensory-motor stage, preoperational stage, concrete operational stage, formal
development (4)? operational stage
refers to the ability to deal more and more with the mental life
world in our head and less of the world in the physical
space around us.
, what are 3 key accomplishments of the sensory motor integration of the 5 senses, ability to display goal directed behavior,
period? development of object permanence
According to Piaget movement from one stage to the Maturation
next is driven by __ not experience.
What is the process of OP? No awareness of OP, Partial object permanence, Doesn't understand visible
displacements, understands visual placements, doesn't understand invisible
displacements, understands invisible displacements, full awareness of object
permanence
A child improves cognitive ability, but not fully mature Preoperational period
cognitive abilities yet. The child becomes capable of
symbolic representation.
capable of carrying the world around in our head; symbolic representation
representing the world through mental symbols (can
think of things that are not in front of him).
the child observes some complex behavior in the world deferred imitation
and later the child imitates the behavior when the
behavior is no longer in front of them.
a child transforms what he has into what he wants it to symbolic play
be through his imagination.
words are symbols for things (child comes to use of Language
understand identities).
the child realizes that some thing keeps its____ , even Identity
though those things may look different from time to
time, but they stay what they are.
the child comes to understand basic relationships Understanding functions
between 2 events that occur together consistently.
limitations of preoperational thought. Realism, animism, centration, irreversibility, focus on states, egocentrism
trouble distinguishing between physical reality and *realism
psychological events.
everything is alive and everything has the same *animism
characteristics as humans.
focus on one aspect on a situation and ignore all other *centration
aspects to that situation.
many actions can be reversed in order to solve *irreversibility
problems.
focus on end products and not the actions involved in *focus on states
getting to the end products.
