CPSY 3301 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED
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precausal reasoning Ans✓✓✓piaget's description of the reasoning of
young children that does not follow the procedures of either deductive or
inductive reasoning
Judy DeLoache reasons that the scale errors made by young children are
likely due to: Ans✓✓✓a dissociation between perception and action due
to immature brain development.
scale errors Ans✓✓✓young children's inappropriate use of an object
due to their failure to consider information about the objects size
mental modules Ans✓✓✓hypothesized innate mental faculties that
receive inputs from particular classes of objects and produce
corresponding information about the world
scripts Ans✓✓✓event schemas that specify who participates in an
event, what social roles they play, what objects they are to use during the
event, and the sequence of actions that make up the event
mental operations Ans✓✓✓in Piaget's theory, the mental process of
combining, separating or transforming information in a logical manner
, preoperational stage Ans✓✓✓according to piaget, the stage of thinking
between infancy and middle childhood, in which children are unable to
decenter their thinking or to think through the consequences of an action
centration Ans✓✓✓YOUNG children's tendency to focus on only one
feature of an object to the exclusion of all other features
decentration Ans✓✓✓the cognitive ability to pull away from focusing
on just one feature of an object in order to consider multiple features
objectivity Ans✓✓✓the mental distancing made possible by
decentration. Piaget believed the attainment of objectivity to be the
major achievement of cognitive development
egocentrism Ans✓✓✓in piaget's terms, the tendency to "center on
oneself" that is, to consider the world entirely in terms of ones own point
of view
media Ans✓✓✓form of mass communication
socialization Ans✓✓✓the process by which children acquire the
standards, values, and knowledge of their society
VERIFIED ANSWERS (100% CORRECT ANSWERS)
/ALREADY GRADED
precausal reasoning Ans✓✓✓piaget's description of the reasoning of
young children that does not follow the procedures of either deductive or
inductive reasoning
Judy DeLoache reasons that the scale errors made by young children are
likely due to: Ans✓✓✓a dissociation between perception and action due
to immature brain development.
scale errors Ans✓✓✓young children's inappropriate use of an object
due to their failure to consider information about the objects size
mental modules Ans✓✓✓hypothesized innate mental faculties that
receive inputs from particular classes of objects and produce
corresponding information about the world
scripts Ans✓✓✓event schemas that specify who participates in an
event, what social roles they play, what objects they are to use during the
event, and the sequence of actions that make up the event
mental operations Ans✓✓✓in Piaget's theory, the mental process of
combining, separating or transforming information in a logical manner
, preoperational stage Ans✓✓✓according to piaget, the stage of thinking
between infancy and middle childhood, in which children are unable to
decenter their thinking or to think through the consequences of an action
centration Ans✓✓✓YOUNG children's tendency to focus on only one
feature of an object to the exclusion of all other features
decentration Ans✓✓✓the cognitive ability to pull away from focusing
on just one feature of an object in order to consider multiple features
objectivity Ans✓✓✓the mental distancing made possible by
decentration. Piaget believed the attainment of objectivity to be the
major achievement of cognitive development
egocentrism Ans✓✓✓in piaget's terms, the tendency to "center on
oneself" that is, to consider the world entirely in terms of ones own point
of view
media Ans✓✓✓form of mass communication
socialization Ans✓✓✓the process by which children acquire the
standards, values, and knowledge of their society
