PSY 225 Chapter 9 Practice Questions with Correct Answers

Physical Play Development Games with rules common: Sports, invented games. Rough-and-tumble play Video games Adult-organized sports Physical education Piaget's Theory: Achievements of the Concrete Operational Stage Conservation - Decentration, Reversibility Classification Spatial Reasoning - Directions, Maps Seriation - Transitive inference Transitive Inference Being able to tell the difference between 2 objects without them being side by side. Limitations of Concrete Operational Thought Operations work best with concrete information - Problems with abstract ideas. Continuum of acquisition - Master concrete operational tasks gradually, step by step. Follow-up Research on Concrete Operational Thought Culture and schooling affect task performance - Going to school gives experience on Piagetian tasks. Relevant non-school experiences of some cultures can help too. Information-Processing View of Concrete Operational Thought Neo-Piagetians: Gains in information-processing speed, rather than shift to a new stage: Automatic schemas free working memory, Central conceptual structures. Key Information-Processing Improvements Increase in information-processing speed/capacity Gains in inhibition Both may be related to brain development Attention in Middle Childhood Attention becomes more selective adaptable and planful. Selective - Selecting what to pay attention to currently Adaptable - Planning to get something done but then shifting to another task Planful - Planning to get tasks done.