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According to Piaget, when a new experience is readily incorporated into an existing scheme, _______________ is occurring.

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A child using the one-to-one principle to count would always begin counting starting with the number one.

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The ____ principle of counting states that number names must be counted in the same sequence.


A) one-to-one
B) stable-order
C) habituation
D) cardinality

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Which child is most likely using private speech during a piano lesson?


A) Wolfgang, who is practicing a very easy song
B) Sebastian, who is not making any mistakes
C) Johann, who is playing a new, difficult song for the first time
D) Giuseppe, who is already a concert pianist

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Piaget described a scheme as a psychological structure that


A) organizes experience.
B) is used in language but not thought.
C) we lose as we age.
D) is only found in those with a set of personal values.

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The belief that an inanimate object has lifelike properties is called _______________.

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As a Piagetian, Avery would consider ____ the highest accomplishment of the sensorimotor period of development.


A) exercising reflexes
B) egocentrism
C) using symbols
D) experimentation

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When presented with a strong or unfamiliar stimulus, humans will automatically attend to the stimulus. This reaction is referred to as a(n)_______________ response.

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Piaget used the term ____ to describe the process by which new experiences are easily incorporated into existing schemes.


A) accommodation
B) scaffolding
C) assimilation
D) secondary

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Preschoolers who watch the television show Sesame Street have been shown to ____ in kindergarten than children who have not watched the show.


A) be less social
B) be more violent
C) have larger vocabularies
D) have less inner speech

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Infant Timmy has been babbling for several months. What is his next likely linguistic milestone?


A) Cooing
B) Telegraphic speech
C) First word
D) Intonation

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According to Piaget, which statement is true regarding the stages of thinking?


A) Sensorimotor and preoperational thinking must be completed before the concrete operational stage, but not before formal operational thinking.
B) Sensorimotor and preoperational thinking must be completed before the formal operational stage, but not before concrete operational thinking.
C) Thinking alternates between stages throughout development.
D) All stages must be accomplished in the correct order.

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Trevor is visiting his dad's office on a take-your-son-to-work day. Just after they arrive, Trevor's dad's boss bursts into the room and screams at the dad about a poorly written report he submitted. All the time that he is being berated, Trevor's dad keeps smiling. Once the boss has left, Trevor turns to his dad and says, "You really must like it when your boss hollers at you." Trevor's lack of understanding that one's internal state may not match an external state is best explained by the concept of


A) appearance as reality.
B) egocentrism.
C) expressive style.
D) autobiographical memory.

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Research shows that as early as two months of age, infants can recall past events.

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Four-week-old Dixie appears to understand that when you push a cup over the edge of a table, the cup will fall to the ground. Such an understanding would provide support for the concept of


A) naive physics.
B) animism.
C) the stable-order principle.
D) over regularization.

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Linguistic intonation is best described as a variation in sound


A) pitch.
B) meaning.
C) length. ​
D) comprehension.

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Jeanne has just learned to talk and often says things like "I want it" or "Come here" or "Where did he go?" Jeanne is exhibiting


A) infant-directed speech.
B) an expressive style.
C) a referential style.
D) babbling.

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How many phonemes are in the word "test?"


A) one
B) two
C) three
D) four

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The theory that human infants are born with a rudimentary knowledge of the world and they use their experience to expand this knowledge underlies the ____ hypothesis.


A) egocentric
B) overgeneralization
C) tabula rasa
D) core knowledge

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Describe three limitations of Piaget's theory, according to critics.

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