A. animal behavior in the natural environment
B. intellectual development in children
C. the mental rules underlying languages use
D. information processing in computers
Related Mcqs:
- In second half of the twentieth century, which development contributed most to the cognitive revolution in psychology?
A. philosophy of brain
B. Darwin’s theory
C. increased understand and use of computers
D. both a and b - Jean Piaget’s theory explaining how children’s thought progresses through four stages:
A. Classical theory
B. Anomie theory of deviance
C. cognitive theory of development
D. Charismatic authority theory - Jean Piaget’s theory explaining how children’s thought progresses through four stages:
A. Classical theory
B. Anomie theory of deviance
C. Cognitive theory of development
D. Charismatic authority theory - A child is playing with a toy. When you hide the toy, she makes no effort to look for it. According to Jean Piaget, the child is in which stage of cognition?
A. Concrete Operational
B. Formal operational
C. Sensorimotor
D. Preoperational - When a child modifies an existing cognitive schema to make it compatible with the cognitive aspects of an incoming stimulus, the process is called _____________?
A. assimilation
B. adaptation
C. conservation
D. accommodation - Always having been a good student, lrving is confident that he will do well in his psychology course. According to Bandura’s cognitive theory, lrving would be said to have:
A. strong feelings of self-efficacy
B. a sense of superiority
C. strong feelings of self-esteem
D. strong defense mechanisms - When a child acquires the ability to represent the world internally through the use of symbols, he enters which of Piaget’s stages of cognitive development?
A. sensorimotor
B. secondary circular reactions
C. concrete operational
D. preoperational - In Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, internalizing of action schemes is the major task of the______________ stage?
A. sensorimotor
B. preoperational
C. formal operational
D. concrete-operational - According to Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, middle childhood is characterized by ______________?
A. hypothetical reasoning
B. deductive thinking
C. concrete operations
D. egocentric thinking - According to Piaget, cognitive development occurs through a fixed sequence of stages, each distinguished from the prior stage by a ________________?
A. larger number of schemes
B. new kind of scheme
C. increasing use of accommodation
D. increasing use of assimilation
