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Activity 9.2 Multiple Choice

Identify – Piaget, Vygotsky, or Information Processing

Determine whether each of the following statements best describes the theories of Piaget, Vygotsky, or the information-processing approach.

This activity contains 19 questions.

Question 1.
Adults adjust the support they offer to children to fit the child’s current level of performance
 
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Question 2.
Preschoolers cannot use memory strategies such as rehearsal or categorization because such strategies tax a young child’s limited working memories.
 
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Question 3.
Young children egocentrically assign human purposes to physical events.
 
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Question 4.
Says little about how elementary motor, perceptual, attention, memory and problem-solving skills contribute to higher cognitive processes
 
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Question 5.
There is an abrupt change toward logical reasoning at around age 6 or 7.
 
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Question 6.
Even preschoolers with good language skills recall poorly because they are less effective than older individuals at using memory strategies.
 
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Question 7.
Assumes that all children go through the same sequence of development but at different rates, so teachers must plan activities for individual and small groups rather than just for the whole class
 
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Question 8.
Stresses the social context of cognitive development.
 
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Question 9.
As memory, problem solving, and representation of the world improve, children start to reflect on their own thought processes and begin to construct a theory of mind
 
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Question 10.
Language does not play a major role in cognitive development.
 
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Question 11.
Through pretending, young children practice and strengthen newly acquired representational schemes.
 
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Question 12.
A classroom based on this approach relies upon assisted discovery and peer collaboration.
 
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Question 13.
Around age 4, children realize that false beliefs – ones that do not represent reality accurately – can guide people’s behavior.
 
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Question 14.
As children create imaginary situations, they learn to follow internal ideas and social rules rather than their immediate impulses.
 
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Question 15.
Focuses on the mental strategies that child use to transform the stimuli flowing into their mental systems.
 
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Question 16.
Children’s self-directed speech is the foundation for all higher cognitive processes.
 
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Question 17.
Preschoolers rely on scripts to remember familiar, repeated events.
 
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Question 18.
In a classroom in this tradition, children are encouraged to discover for themselves through spontaneous interaction with the environment.
 
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Question 19.
When given challenging problems, children try out a variety of strategies, observe which work best, which work less well, and which are ineffective and gradually select strategies that result in rapid, accurate solutions.
 
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