An elementary teacher who views learning from a cognitive perspective would be most
likely to include which of the following activities in her classroom?
a. repeated practice of math facts until they are automatic
b. choral reading of passages from texts and novels
c. discussing students' ideas about a character's motives in a novel
d. memorizing weekly spelling lists and quizzing students over them
Ques. 2Piaget tended to be concerned with _______ processes in cognitive development, whereas
Vygotsky was more concerned with _________ processes.
a. novice, expert
b. short-term, long-term
c. static, dynamic
d. internal, social
Ques. 3Research on infants and young children has shown that:
a. they are basically a tabula rasa or blank slate.
b. they are much less expressive of emotion than adults.
c. they are capable of expert behavior in some domains.
d. they seem to have biological propensities to learn certain concepts and skills.
Ques. 4John kicked his friend, Bobby, during recess. When the teacher asks him how he thinks
Bobby feels, John looks confused and doesn't know. Which Piagetian stage is John exhibiting?
a. sensorimotor
b. preoperational
c. concrete operational
d. formal operational
Ques. 5According to Piaget, a child is in what cognitive development stage when she exhibits object
permanence (the realization that an object continues to exist even when removed from view)?
a. sensorimotor
b. preoperational
c. concrete operational
d. formal operational
Ques. 6Piaget's theory recognizes that often we must alter our beliefs to take into account new
experiences. This adjustment is called:
a. assimilation.
b. accommodation.
c. equilibration.
d. operation.
Ques. 7Many changes in the information processing model over the past 40 years have been
directed toward accommodating empirical evidence in support of ___?___ processes
that were excluded from early versions of the model
a. data-driven
b. conceptually-driven
c. automatic
d. perceptual
Ques. 8Which of the following statements is most consistent with cognitive psychology?
a. learning is independent of environmental consequences
b. a learning event means the same thing to everyone
c. academic skills are unaffected by feedback
d. the same event means different things to different people
Ques. 9One important objection to Piaget's stage theory is the phenomenon of decalage. This refers
to what quality of a child's performance?
a. Some children perform uniformly at the formal operational stage.
b. The performance is pre-operational even though the child is school-age.
c. The child displays different Piagetian stages depending on the task and domain.
d. A majority of children will never be able to use abstractions easily.
Ques. 10Cognitive psychologists are most concerned with the role of prior ___?___ in learning.
a. activity
b. reinforcement
c. knowledge
d. socialization
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