chapter 12 example #36728

According to Jean Piaget, a child between the ages of 6 and 11 can apply logical principles to _____.

A child is shown a large box and a small box. The large box contains a 5-pound weight and the small box contains a 10-pound weight. The child picks up the boxes and looks at them closely, and then is asked which weighs more. The child is no longer focused only on appearances, so he answers that the small box weighs more. Jean Piaget would say that this child is in the _____ stage of cognitive development.

Which statement about the difference between a 4-year-old and an 11-year-old is true?

Lev Vygotsky viewed _____ as being crucial to children's development of skills and knowledge.

Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky differed over the most important factors in a child's cognitive development. In general, Piaget described _____; Vygotsky noted ______.

From an information-processing approach, the memory process has three major steps. What is the correct order of this process, beginning with the first component?

By the end of middle childhood, the capacity of long-term memory is _____.

Metacognition is _____.

Mastery of pragmatics allows children to change styles of speech, or "codes," depending on the audience. What code are children likely to use with their teachers?

Alice, age 7, comes from a low-SES family. Compared to her peers from higher-SES families, she has difficulty with language learning in school. According to current research, one factor that could be contributing to Alice's language learning difficulty is her lack of _____.

The unspoken and often unrecognized lessons that children learn in school, which are the unofficial, unstated, or implicit rules and priorities that influence the academic curriculum and every other aspect of learning in school, are called the "______."

A child's achievement seems more influenced by _____ in the United States than in other nations.