Increasing motor skills during early childhood are due to: - ️️- growth of the body,
arms, and legs as the cephalocaudal pattern of growth continues.
- greater coordination of muscle groups.
- nerve development in the control of motor movement.
In Piaget's False Belief task, a child who inc...
PVCC PSY 230 Exam 2 Prep
Increasing motor skills during early childhood are due to: - ✔️✔️- growth of the body,
arms, and legs as the cephalocaudal pattern of growth continues.
- greater coordination of muscle groups.
- nerve development in the control of motor movement.
In Piaget's False Belief task, a child who incorrectly states that a returning person will
look for a cupcake in the box that it is in, even though the person returning doesn't know
that, is at which Piagetian stage of cognitive development? - ✔️✔️preoperational
Movements of the body that involve large muscles and limbs. - ✔️✔️gross motor skills
Small, coordinated movements such as writing or typing. - ✔️✔️fine motor skills
Myelination of the ______________________________ (the main memory processor in
the brain) in middle childhood helps children develop improved long term memory. -
✔️✔️hippocampus
A child is building a sand castle and saying to himself, "Now scoop the sand. Now pour
it on the pile." This is an example of: - ✔️✔️inner (or private) speech.
In toddlerhood and early childhood, children are in Piaget's
________________________ stage of cognitive development. - ✔️✔️preoperational
A child who correctly states that water is still the same when it is poured from a short,
wide glass into a tall, skinny glass would be in which of Piaget's stages of cognitive
development? - ✔️✔️
According to Piaget, middle childhood is a time when we can begin to think logically
about the physical world. This is the ___________________________stage of cognitive
development. - ✔️✔️concrete operational
The understanding that others have private thoughts, and the ability to think about other
poeple's thoughts, are part of a child's: - ✔️✔️theory of mind.
The central ability that is developing during Piaget's preoperational stage of cognitive
development is: - ✔️✔️symbolic representation
Supporting a child so that they can solve a difficult problem themselves (that they
couldn't solve without support) is called: - ✔️✔️scaffolding
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