Question : 101.Which activity might allow Gwyneth to help her six-month-old granddaughter : 1231292

101.Which activity might allow Gwyneth to help her six-month-old granddaughter develop object permanence?

A)playing peek-a-boo with her

B)singing the alphabet song with her

C)singing songs like “Itsy Bitsy Spider”

D)playing patty-cake with her

E)reading children’s books to her

102.All but which of the following are characteristic of the preoperational stage of cognitive development?

A)egocentrism

B)conservation

C)irreversibility

D)centration

E)animistic thinking

103.In Piaget’s theory, the tendency to view the world only from one’s own perspective is

A)centration.

B)authoritarianism.

C)conservation.

D)egocentrism.

E)irreversibility.

104.Nine-year-old Dakoda realizes that the quantity of water in a glass remains the same, even when the water is poured into a different shaped glass and appears to look like more or less. In Piaget’s terms, Dakoda has developed

A)conservation.

B)assimilation.

C)accommodation.

D)object permanence.

E)centration.

105.An average child in the concrete operational stage of cognitive development can be expected to do all but which of the following?

A)recognize that other people’s thoughts and feelings may differ from his/her own

B)perform simple logical operations tied to tangible examples

C)be less egocentric than her/his younger siblings

D)understand that quantity or amount of an object remains constant despite superficial changes in outward appearance

E)generate hypotheses and think deductively

106.All but which of the following have been put forth as criticisms of Piaget’s theory?

A)His research techniques were not rigorous enough.

B)He underestimated abilities of younger children.

C)Development is really more continual and gradual than he proposed.

D)He did not take cultural differences into account.

E)He failed to account for changes in cognitive development that occur across different stages.

107.Vygotsky saw cognitive development through the lens of children’s

A)egocentrism.

B)culture and social worlds.

C)biological programming.

D)parental controls.

E)schemas.

108.In Vygotsky’s terms, the range between a child’s present level of skills and knowledge and their potential level of skills and knowledge with appropriate guidance is called the child’s

A)space of scaffolding.

B)region of growth.

C)zone of proximal development.

D)zone of equilibrium.

E)schema space.

109.Vygotsky’s concept of the zone of proximal development is best described

A)by the principle of scaffolding.

B)as the range between children’s present level of skills and knowledge and their potential level with               appropriate guidance

C)as the range between the child’s current level of intelligence and potential intelligence if provided with an enriched environment.

D)as the child’s zone of equilibrium or range of potential development based on current level of intelligence.

E)as the range between the child’s proximal and distal level of abilities.

110.According to Vygotsky, the optimal relationship between adult and child is

A)follower and leader.

B)supervisor and employee.

C)peer and peer.

D)parent and student.

E)tutor and student.