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

This activity contains 19 questions.

	Adults adjust the support they offer to children to fit the child’s current level of performance   Piaget Vygotsky Information processing

	Preschoolers cannot use memory strategies such as rehearsal or categorization because such strategies tax a young child’s limited working memories.   Information processing Vygotsky Piaget

	Young children egocentrically assign human purposes to physical events.   Vygotsky Information processing Piaget

	Says little about how elementary motor, perceptual, attention, memory and problem-solving skills contribute to higher cognitive processes   Vygotsky Information processing Piaget

	There is an abrupt change toward logical reasoning at around age 6 or 7.   Piaget Vygotsky Information processing

	Even preschoolers with good language skills recall poorly because they are less effective than older individuals at using memory strategies.   Vygotsky Piaget Information processing

	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   Piaget Vygotsky Information processing

	Stresses the social context of cognitive development.   Information processing Vygotsky Piaget

	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   Vygotsky Information processing Piaget

	Language does not play a major role in cognitive development.   Information processing Piaget Vygotsky

	Through pretending, young children practice and strengthen newly acquired representational schemes.   Information processing Vygotsky Piaget

	A classroom based on this approach relies upon assisted discovery and peer collaboration.   Piaget Information processing Vygotsky

	Around age 4, children realize that false beliefs – ones that do not represent reality accurately – can guide people’s behavior.   Information processing Vygotsky Piaget

	As children create imaginary situations, they learn to follow internal ideas and social rules rather than their immediate impulses.   Information processing Piaget Vygotsky

	Focuses on the mental strategies that child use to transform the stimuli flowing into their mental systems.   Information processing Piaget Vygotsky

	Children’s self-directed speech is the foundation for all higher cognitive processes.   Information processing Piaget Vygotsky

	Preschoolers rely on scripts to remember familiar, repeated events.   Vygotsky Information processing Piaget

	In a classroom in this tradition, children are encouraged to discover for themselves through spontaneous interaction with the environment.   Piaget Vygotsky Information processing

	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.   Information processing Vygotsky Piaget

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