PSY302: quiz 3 Questions And Answers Rated 100%

Noam Chomsky's theory of language development is - ANS based on the idea that certain features of LANGUAGE are inborn Four-year-old Brittany mistakes her next-door neighbor's new pet rabbit for a kitten. How would Piaget explain Brittany's error? - ANS she used assimilation Which process did Piaget propose to explain why people respond in NEW WAYS to change in the environment? - ANS Accommodation According to Piaget, which statement describes cognitive behavior in the sensorimotor period? - ANS Thinking revolves primarily around sensory and motor capabilities ("thinking is acting") We talked about Piaget's explanation why children fail to understand the concept of conservation. On of the following is NOT an explanation according to Piaget - ANS Lack of understanding of the principle's "compensation" and "reversibility" Aiza is upset because she is convinced that her brother's cookie is bigger than hers. Her dad quickly breaks Aiza's cookie in two and tells her that she now has "more cookie." If Aiza is satisfied by this, how would Piaget explain her response? - ANS she does not yet understand conservation According to Piaget, which characterizes (and also proses a limitation on) concrete-operational thought? - ANS structures for mental operations are ted to actual objects in the real world (i.e. thinking is still concrete) Michelle is an 8 year-old who shows an understanding of seriation, classification, and conservation of a number and amount but fails to understand other types of conservation problems. According to Piaget, what is the term for this behaviour? - ANS Horizontal décalage: Piaget considered this is not untypical According to Piaget, which cognitive skill is typical for formal operational reasoning? - ANS Abstract deductive reasoning A typical theory of mind experiment is: - ANS the child is shown a box with the word "smarties" written on it. Next, the child is asked, "what do you think is in the box?" Then the box is opened and the child finds pencils. Lastly, the child is asked: "what do you think your friend Pierre will say when she sees the closed box and is asked what's in the box"? With regard to the "big" questions, Piaget supported the following positions: Please indicate which statement is INCORRECT - ANS Development is characterized by major intra-individual differences Piaget was not very interested in - ANS Inter-individual differences Neo-nativism claims that - ANS children are capable of limitation a lot earlier in like than what Piaget claims in his theory Chomsky claims that humans are born - ANS with a language acquisition device and universal grammar With regard to the "big" question of "modularity versus holism", neo-nativism - ANS assumes some form of modularity, but also has aspects of holism (compromise between two positions) Neo-nativistic theory is not at all compatible with one of the following philosophical (epistemological) positions as described in class - ANS Empiricism (such a Locke and Hume) Neo-nativism assumes that humans are born - ANS with a module for processing quantitative information One of the following statements is INCORRECT - ANS Neo-nativistic theory is a maturational theory Research has linked deficits theory of mind specially to the following disorder(s) - ANS Autism and schizophrenia One of the following IS NOT a core-module in neo-nativistic theory - ANS Vision A newspaper claims that a "baby's brain is hardwired for math". This statement specifically relates to - ANS the neo nativistic claim that humans are born with some form of module specialized for processing quantitative information The theory id mind approach claims that a three-year old child... - ANS understands desires and beliefs Which of the following could be a slogan if neo-nativism - ANS the newborn arrives with much "knowledge" I explained to you a number if experiments conducted by neo-nativistic researchers. In one of the experiments infants/toddlers were shown an event with the impossible outcome that an object moved through another object (a brick). In the experiment, the subjects were suprised about this outcome. Neo-nativistic theories interpret this as... - ANS evidence that humans are born with a basic and naive understanding of physics Neo-nativistic theory relies on a number of specific research techniques. Which of the following is NOT one of these techniques? - ANS Evoked brain connectomes I explained the proposal that humans have a language of though (LOT). Which statement is WRONG? - ANS Skinner supported the idea of a LOT Moral Foundation Theory - ANS Proposes that there are innate and modular foundations of moral decisions Which statement is correct? - ANS Piaget and neo-nativistic theory comes to different conclusions concerning early math education Neonativistic theory is closely related to the ideas of which philosopher(s) - ANS Plato and Kant