Human Development - Nature vs. Nurture Quiz

What is the term for the ability to adapt to and recover from changes and/or difficulties experienced, especially early in life?

Which stage of Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development is characterized by the understanding of the world based solely on senses?

What is the term for the awareness/knowledge that objects continue to exist even when out of view?

Which stage of Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development involves developmental crises such as executive function?

According to Vygotsky's Theory of Cognitive Development, what is the process in which adults 'back off' on the level of help or guidance they give a child that is learning to master a task?

What do we call the process involving making new information simply fit into your existing understanding?

Which stage of Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development is characterized by illogical thinking and difficulty taking another’s point of view?

In Vygotsky's Theory of Cognitive Development, what is the understanding that objects can be represented with symbols and gestures called?

What is the term for the ability to reason and solve problems through deductive reasoning?

What is the term for the process in which skills are developed due to developmental crises like executive function?

In Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development, which stage involves an ability to think logically about abstract concepts and fully manipulate mental representations?

What do we call the change over time involving both growth and decline?