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A toddler's main task is to establish independence, framed as autonomy versus:Read the answer and worked solution →The theorist who focused on children's cognitive growth in four stages was:Read the answer and worked solution →Mental models children build to categorise and interpret the world are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Fitting new information into an existing mental model is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Changing a mental model because new information does not fit is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Piaget's theory of cognitive development contains how many stages?Read the answer and worked solution →The stage lasting from birth to about age two is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Young infants do not remember a toy once it is hidden. They lack:Read the answer and worked solution →Around the same age, infants begin to fear unfamiliar people. That is:Read the answer and worked solution →The stage from about age two to seven, marked by pretend play, is:Read the answer and worked solution →A child who cannot take another person's viewpoint is showing:Read the answer and worked solution →Understanding that mass and number stay the same when shape changes is:Read the answer and worked solution →Knowing that an object can be changed and then returned to its original form is:Read the answer and worked solution →The final Piagetian stage, from about age eleven, is:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Piaget stagesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the development domainsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the development gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the development wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Piaget or EriksonRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the stage markersRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Child development bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Told that an elephant is not a horse, a boy changes his whole idea of animals. This is:Read the answer and worked solution →Piaget's name for the state of balance between prior ideas and openness to new ones:Read the answer and worked solution →When new information does not fit a child's existing schemes, Piaget says the child is in:Read the answer and worked solution →Besides maturation, experience and social environment, which fourth factor did Piaget add?Read the answer and worked solution →Which statement fits Piaget's idea of stages of cognitive development?Read the answer and worked solution →Piaget's own term for the help and teaching a child receives from other people:Read the answer and worked solution →In Piaget's first stage, infants learn about the world mainly through:Read the answer and worked solution →An older infant searches under a blanket for a toy that was just hidden there. This shows:Read the answer and worked solution →

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A toddler's main task is to establish independence, framed as autonomy versus:

  1. Shale and dust
  2. Sheen and dew
  3. Shame and doubt
  4. Shape and drift
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Correct answer: C. Shame and doubt

1. The toddler tries things alone. 2. Failure or scolding brings the opposite. 3. That is autonomy versus shame and doubt. _Source: OpenStax Psychology 2e, Chapter 9, Lifespan Development._

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The theorist who focused on children's cognitive growth in four stages was:

  1. Joan Piggott
  2. James Pickett
  3. John Pagett
  4. Jean Piaget
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Correct answer: D. Jean Piaget

1. He spent over 50 years studying children. 2. He said children do not reason like adults. 3. He was Jean Piaget. _Source: OpenStax Psychology 2e, Chapter 9, Lifespan Development._

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Mental models children build to categorise and interpret the world are called:

  1. Schemata
  2. Schematics
  3. Schedules
  4. Scholars
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Correct answer: A. Schemata

1. They organise incoming information. 2. Adults hold them for almost everything. 3. They are schemata. _Source: OpenStax Psychology 2e, Chapter 9, Lifespan Development._

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