Piaget's Cognitive Development: Infants and Fear of Heights
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What percentage of male undergraduates failed to represent what the water line would look like after being tilted in the formal operations test?

  • 25%
  • 50% (correct)
  • 90%
  • 75%
  • Who argued that Piaget's finding on object permanence was rooted in a lack of motor ability in infants?

  • Jean Piaget
  • Yuko Munakata
  • Renée Baillargeon (correct)
  • Kristine Onishi
  • What is the term for the understanding that objects continue to exist when hidden?

  • Object permanence (correct)
  • Metarepresentation
  • Theory of mind
  • Folk physics
  • What is the name of the paradigm used in studies to demonstrate infants' understanding of object permanence?

    <p>Dishabituation paradigm</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the understanding that people can have different beliefs and mental states than one's own?

    <p>Theory of mind</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of neural network can be used to model object permanence?

    <p>Recurrent neural network (RNN)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the ability to understand other people's mental states?

    <p>Mindreading</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the age range at which children typically begin to show an understanding of false belief in the false belief task?

    <p>3-4 years</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the ability to represent another person's representation of the world?

    <p>Metarepresentation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the shared attention mechanism that occurs when infants look at objects because they see that another person is looking at that object?

    <p>Joint attention</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary reason why younger infants who have not had experience crawling do not show fear in the visual cliff experiment?

    <p>They lack the experience of heights and depths</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to Piaget, what is the primary characteristic of the pre-operational stage of cognitive development?

    <p>The ability to symbolize objects and events that are absent</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary accomplishment of the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development, according to Piaget?

    <p>The development of object permanence</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary characteristic of the formal operations stage of cognitive development, according to Piaget?

    <p>The ability to think about abstract concepts</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary difference between the pre-operational and concrete operations stages of cognitive development, according to Piaget?

    <p>The development of higher order schemas called operations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to Piaget, what is the primary difference between the sensorimotor and pre-operational stages of cognitive development?

    <p>The ability to symbolize objects and events that are absent</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary example of the concrete operations stage of cognitive development, according to Piaget?

    <p>All of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary weakness of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development?

    <p>It does not account for individual differences in cognitive development</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to Piaget, what is the primary characteristic of the egocentric thinking in the pre-operational stage?

    <p>The inability to see things from different points of view</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary example of the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development, according to Piaget?

    <p>The game of peek-a-boo</p> Signup and view all the answers

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