4343 Exam 1 Questions And Answers 2024

What are two basic questions in cognitive development? - correct answer-1. How does children's thinking differ from that of adults? 2. How does children's thinking change with age? What are some challenges to studying cognitive development? - correct answer-Limited Language Individual Differences Disabilities & Disorders Methodology What are Bjorklund & Causey's 6 "truths" about cognitive development? - correct answer-Cog. Dev; 1. Dynamic & reciprocal transaction of internal & external factors 2. Constructed within a social context 3. Stability & plasticity over time 4. Changes in the way info is represented 5. Increasing intentional control over behavior & cognition 6. Changes in domain general & domain specific abilities Stability vs. Plasticity - correct answer-S: Rank order of individual skill (IQ) not a lot of movement regardless of environment P: Changeable, how moldable a skill is Domain-General vs. Domain-Specific - correct answer-General: Changes Intelligence Specific: Multiple intelligence in areas (visual arts, not in social intelligence) Define Genetic Epistemology - correct answer-The idea that there are changes in the way in which we acquire knowledge, or even what it means to know something. Functionalism - correct answer-Influenced by Darwin, emphasized adaptive function of mind, mind always evolving and developing in an interaction with context Structuralism - correct answer-Org. of knowledge, logical relations among structures, If -- then relations