PSYC 333 Exam 2 – Psychology course exam material
In Piaget's cognitive developmental theory, the basic goal of intelligence is to: - correct answer
✔✔adapt to the environment
Four-year-old Britney mistakes her neighbor's new pet rabbit for a kitten. Britney's error
illustrates the Piagetian process of: - correct answer ✔✔assimilation
The preoperational principle called centration means that the child: - correct answer
✔✔attends to each other's single most salient feature
Recent theoretical discussion on Piaget's stages has focused on the issue of whether: - correct
answer ✔✔cognition develops continuously instead of in stages
According to Vygotsky, ____ development refers to short-term longitudinal changes in the
child's competencies or performances. - correct answer ✔✔microgenetic
The formal education of children in the United States and Europe primarily involves: - correct
answer ✔✔context-independent learning
Which theorist(s) regarded the child's self-directed speech to be important, sophisticated,
purposive, or communicative? - correct answer ✔✔Vygotsky, but not Piaget
The use of the computer as a model for understanding the child's mind is part of the: - correct
answer ✔✔information-processing perspective
Which maturational change has been identified as the source of age-related improvements in
children's processing speed? - correct answer ✔✔myelination of the brain's associative areas
, Theorists such as Kipp and Bjorklund have claimed that inhibitory processes are needed so that
the child: - correct answer ✔✔can suppress task-irrelevant distracting thoughts
Free recall refers to recalling: - correct answer ✔✔in the absence of useful hints or retrieval
cues
A five-year-old describes going to the dentist as, "You get in the car, drive there, get out, go
inside, wait, get in the dental chair, get teeth fixed, jump from the chair, walk to the car, and go
home." This is a: - correct answer ✔✔memory script
Researchers have found that African adolescents display better recall for orally transmitted
stories than do American adolescents. This is an example of: - correct answer ✔✔cross-cultural
differences in the tools of intellectual adaptation for remembering
In the study of preschoolers' efforts to move gumballs between bowls, Brown and Kane found
that children: - correct answer ✔✔used analogical hints effectively from their own efforts
In Binet's intelligence test, what was meant by the expression, "mental age of seven"? - correct
answer ✔✔the child passed items that most seven-year-olds pass
Louis Thurstone's factor analyses led him to the theoretical conclusion that Spearman's g-factor
is: - correct answer ✔✔actually seven separate mental abilities
In Sternberg's triarchic theory, the componential (information-processing) component of
intellect includes: - correct answer ✔✔knowledge, strategies, and metacognition
Test norms for IQ tests: - correct answer ✔✔identify scores obtained by normal children
The Flynn effect refers to a long-term secular trend in which: - correct answer ✔✔IQs have risen
by three points in entire populations over each decade
In Piaget's cognitive developmental theory, the basic goal of intelligence is to: - correct answer
✔✔adapt to the environment
Four-year-old Britney mistakes her neighbor's new pet rabbit for a kitten. Britney's error
illustrates the Piagetian process of: - correct answer ✔✔assimilation
The preoperational principle called centration means that the child: - correct answer
✔✔attends to each other's single most salient feature
Recent theoretical discussion on Piaget's stages has focused on the issue of whether: - correct
answer ✔✔cognition develops continuously instead of in stages
According to Vygotsky, ____ development refers to short-term longitudinal changes in the
child's competencies or performances. - correct answer ✔✔microgenetic
The formal education of children in the United States and Europe primarily involves: - correct
answer ✔✔context-independent learning
Which theorist(s) regarded the child's self-directed speech to be important, sophisticated,
purposive, or communicative? - correct answer ✔✔Vygotsky, but not Piaget
The use of the computer as a model for understanding the child's mind is part of the: - correct
answer ✔✔information-processing perspective
Which maturational change has been identified as the source of age-related improvements in
children's processing speed? - correct answer ✔✔myelination of the brain's associative areas
, Theorists such as Kipp and Bjorklund have claimed that inhibitory processes are needed so that
the child: - correct answer ✔✔can suppress task-irrelevant distracting thoughts
Free recall refers to recalling: - correct answer ✔✔in the absence of useful hints or retrieval
cues
A five-year-old describes going to the dentist as, "You get in the car, drive there, get out, go
inside, wait, get in the dental chair, get teeth fixed, jump from the chair, walk to the car, and go
home." This is a: - correct answer ✔✔memory script
Researchers have found that African adolescents display better recall for orally transmitted
stories than do American adolescents. This is an example of: - correct answer ✔✔cross-cultural
differences in the tools of intellectual adaptation for remembering
In the study of preschoolers' efforts to move gumballs between bowls, Brown and Kane found
that children: - correct answer ✔✔used analogical hints effectively from their own efforts
In Binet's intelligence test, what was meant by the expression, "mental age of seven"? - correct
answer ✔✔the child passed items that most seven-year-olds pass
Louis Thurstone's factor analyses led him to the theoretical conclusion that Spearman's g-factor
is: - correct answer ✔✔actually seven separate mental abilities
In Sternberg's triarchic theory, the componential (information-processing) component of
intellect includes: - correct answer ✔✔knowledge, strategies, and metacognition
Test norms for IQ tests: - correct answer ✔✔identify scores obtained by normal children
The Flynn effect refers to a long-term secular trend in which: - correct answer ✔✔IQs have risen
by three points in entire populations over each decade
