Sociocultural theorists believe that culture most significantly reflects
a. variations that make children from different societies think a bit differently from one another.
b. the child as a thinker, or the epistemic child..
c. how children think, beginning in infancy.
d. objects surrounding the child, who must then make sense of them.
Question 2In contrast to Piaget, Vygotsky emphasized that cognitive development is mediated through
a. parents. c. technical advances.
b. culture. d. teachers.
Question 3Which of the following views stages as a useful concept if it is used more flexibly than Piaget did?
a. the core knowledge approach c. theory theorists
b. the sociocultural approach d. neo-Piagetian theorists
Question 4Information-processing theorists, who dominated the field of cognitive development in the late 20th century, essentially viewed children's minds as analogous to
a. open books. c. developing computers
b. blank slates. d. telescopes.
Question 5A major concept of Piaget's that has been questioned by more recent psychologists is
a. stages. c. operations.
b. schemes. d. object permanence.
Question 6Regarding Piaget's concept of the formal operational stage, more recent studies have shown that
a. children enter this stage much earlier than the age proposed by Piaget.
b. children enter this stage significantly later than the age proposed by Piaget.
c. it is not actually a stage of its own but rather part of the concrete operational stage.
d. it is not achieved by all people and probably not even by most people in the world.
Question 7Studies performed since Piaget's time have shown that ______ can be trained to perform formal operational tasks after only brief instruction.
a. sensorimotor children c. concrete operational children
b. preoperational children d. animals
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