The set of skills and ideas that are just beyond a child's level of competence, but can be mastered ...

The set of skills and ideas that are just beyond a child's level of competence, but can be mastered if that child receives some help, are known as the zone of
 
  A) proximal development.
  B) distal development.
  C) cephalocaudal development.
  D) preoperational development.

Question 2

Lev Vygotsky believed that children's cognitive development was a product of
 
  A) genetic predeterminism.
  B) their individual explorations.
  C) appropriate reinforcement and punishment.
  D) learning from other, more competent people.

Question 3

Who viewed children's cognitive development as the result of collaboration with other, more experienced people in a particular social setting?
 
  A) Jean Piaget
  B) Judy DeLoache
  C) Lev Vygotsky
  D) Eleanor Maccoby

Question 4

Experiments have demonstrated that children as young as what age show evidence of a theory of mind?
 
  A) 1 years old
  B) 2 years old
  C) 3 years old
  D) 4 years old

Question 5

A theory of mind seems to develop from
 
  A) both maturation of the brain and experience with other people.
  B) experience with other people.
  C) maturation of the brain.
  D) the unfolding of a child's genetic programming.

Question 6

Benjamin shows 3-year-old Candice a shoebox and asks her what's inside. Shoes, she replies. He opens the box. It's full of cookies. Then he closes the box and tells Candice that he's going to give the box to Pandora and to ask Pandora to guess what's inside. Candice predicts that Pandora will say cookies. Candice has not yet developed
 
  A) combinatorial logic.
  B) a theory of mind.
  C) animistic thinking.
  D) centration.

Question 7

A child who understands the difference between his or her own mental states and those of others has developed
 
  A) combinatorial logic.
  B) a theory of mind.
  C) animistic thinking.
  D) centration.