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A toddler in Freud's anal stage would also be at Erikson's:
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autonomy versus shame and doubt stage
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Failure to develop self rule over one's own actions is most closely identified with Erikson's concept of _________.
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Guilt
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The Piaget, the difference between cognition in infancy and cognition in the preschool years is:
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Symbolic Thought
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Piaget believed that between the ages of 2 and 6, it is difficult for the children to think:
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Operationally
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The characteristics of irreversibility refers to the pre-operational child's tendency to:
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Be unable to think backwards from a conclusion to the beginning
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Wheras Piaget saw cognitive development as a result of individual discovery, Vgotsky attributed it to:
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social activities guided by others
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One of Vgotsky's most famous concepts was the zone of proximal development, which asserts that:
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A child can master some tasks with the help of others.
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Because of "fast mapping" a preschooler:
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learns some words after a single exposure to them
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What was Vgotsky's perspective on psychology?
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Psychology should focus more on the process than on the static results of development, and the individual is shaped and formed by internalizing aspects of the culture and society.
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A person's understanding of what they think others are thinking is referred to as:
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Theory of mind
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Over-regulation occurs because children
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Assume that language always follow the rules
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In Erikson's third Psychosocial stage:
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Eagerly takes on new tasks
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One child pretends to be the mother while the other pretends to be a baby who will not eat his dinner. Such play is called:
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Sociodramatic
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The study on childcare we discussed in class (conducted by the national institute of health and human development early child care research network) found that:
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Amount of daycare in the first several years of life was positively correlated with how many behavioral problems kids had in kindergarten
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The study on child care also found that most consistent and strongest predictor of child outcomes was:
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Maternal sensitivity
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A strength of the child-care study is that it:
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is a longitudinal study, and was conducted at several locations across the U.S.
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According the National Institute of Health, (ADHD testing)
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there is no independent, valid test for ADHD.
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April is tested on her mastery of college chemistry. What kind of test is this?
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Achievement
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Children with Asperger Syndrome:
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are sometimes called "high functioning autistics"
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What is the best example of automatization?
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Madeline immediately knows 8 x 9 = 72
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Metacognition refers to:
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thinking about one's thinking processes
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Research on language development over the course of the past 40 years suggests that : (socioeconomic status)
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There is a positive correlation between socioeconomic status and the development of a child's vocabulary and grammar.
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All teh information in the sensory register:
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is either lost, discarded, or transferred to short term memory
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Items in short term memory remain there for about______.
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20-30 seconds
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When learning to drive, Jim concentrated so much time on his driving that he didn't want anyone to talk to him. A year later, he can carry on a conversation with a passenger while driving safely. What has probably occured?
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His driving has become automated
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According to Piaget, the distinguishing characteristic of school aged children (age 7-11) is that they are:
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Logical
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A child who understands that properties of objects remain the same despite changes in outward appearance has an understanding of:
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Conservation
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Research shows that a child is most likely to be a victim of bullying if the child is:
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rejected-withdrawn
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Compared to a 7-year-old, a 10-year-old would be more likely to: (in comparison of friends)
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describe s friend as very smart or funny
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Research discussed in class on children's perception's of how good they are in the math shows that those perceptions are most strongly influenced by:
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how competent in math their parents perceive them to be.
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According to Freud, 8 year old Sven will experience:
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repression of psychosocial needs
