Cognitive Development in Preschoolers

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What is the primary role of pedagogical cues in children's learning?

  • To guide radical reorganization of category knowledge (correct)
  • To facilitate social interaction
  • To develop normative inferences
  • To enhance linguistic skills

What do children as young as two and three years old use to guide their inductive generalizations and exploration?

  • Linguistic cues only
  • Both linguistic and pedagogical cues (correct)
  • Pedagogical cues only
  • Social norms only

What is the term used to describe the process by which children learn from others through observation and imitation?

  • Imitation theory
  • Cognitive development
  • Social learning
  • Natural pedagogy (correct)

What do toddlers view as normative, according to Casler, Terziyan, and Greene (2009)?

<p>Artifact function (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term used to describe the idea that children make sense of the world by assuming that things have inherent properties?

<p>The inherence heuristic (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the result of culture-gene coevolution, according to Chudek and Henrich (2011)?

<p>The emergence of human prosociality (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the age range of children studied in the research paper by McGuigan et al. (2007) on imitation of tool use?

<p>3- and 5-year-old (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the title of the book written by Nagel in 1986?

<p>The View from Nowhere (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the focus of the research paper by Nielsen and Tomaselli (2010)?

<p>Overimitation in Kalahari Bushman children (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who wrote the book 'The Social System' in 1951?

<p>Parsons, T. (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary focus of the research papers by Rakoczy, H. and colleagues (2008, 2009, 2013)?

<p>Young children's understanding of normative rules in games (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the name of the software environment for statistical computing mentioned in the text?

<p>R (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a characteristic of young children's acquisition of social norms?

<p>They are quick to construct social norms from observing others. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the topic of the study mentioned in the text?

<p>Promiscuous normativity in young children (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who analyzed the data in Experiment 1?

<p>M.F.H.Schmidt (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the role of J.Heinz in the study?

<p>J.Heinz performed the testing and data collection for Experiment 1. (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who supported M.F.H.Schmidt and L.P.Butler with postdoctoral fellowships?

<p>The Max Planck Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the source of part of Experiment 1?

<p>A bachelor's thesis by J.Heinz (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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