CAD exam EREVISED ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Preoperational thought is the beginning of the ability to reconstruct in thought what has been
established in _____________ - CORRECT ANSWER - behavior
Jean Piaget claimed that during the preoperational stage children ________ perform mental
operations in their thought. - CORRECT ANSWER - cannot
Four-year-old Marta drew a picture with pretty lavender, purple, and blue colors intermixed with
green, yellow, and brown. "It's a boat on the ocean at sunset, with whales jumping all around it!"
she explained to her teacher. Marta is showing clear evidence of being in the __________
function substage of Piaget's preoperational stage. - CORRECT ANSWER - symbolic
Andrea cannot tell the difference between her own perspective and someone else's. Andrea is
experiencing ___________ - CORRECT ANSWER - egocentrism
Jean Piaget and Barbel Inhelder's three-mountain task was designed to test whether children are
able to see things from someone else's _____________ - CORRECT ANSWER -
perspective
"That teddy bear is looking at me funny," said Vanessa. This statement is an example of
__________ - CORRECT ANSWER - animism
Four-year-old Doug is driving his parents crazy with all his questions. He asks why everything is
the way it is, then why things aren't some other way. His parents might be comforted to know
that such questioning is characteristic of the _________ thought substage. - CORRECT
ANSWER - intuitive
_____________ refers to awareness that an object's or a substance's basic properties stay the
same even though its appearance has been altered. - CORRECT ANSWER - conservation
, The zone of ____________ development, introduced by Vygotsky, refers to the child's cognitive
skills that are in the process of maturing and can be accomplished only with the assistance of a
more-skilled person. - CORRECT ANSWER - proximal
Ross is helping his younger sister to write the letters of the alphabet. Ross began by writing the
letters first, then helped his sister trace the letters he had written, and finally watched as she
wrote them by herself. Ross was engaged in _____________ - CORRECT ANSWER -
scaffolding
Latoya talks to herself frequently, especially when trying to solve a difficult problem. Lev
Vygotsky would say that Latoya is using _____________ speech in order to plan, guide, and
monitor her own behavior. - CORRECT ANSWER - private
The ___________ _____________ approach is an approach that emphasizes the social contexts
of learning and the construction of knowledge through social interaction. - CORRECT
ANSWER - social constructivist
_____________ ____________ involves action planning, allocating attention to goals, error
detection and compensation, monitoring progress on tasks, and dealing with novel or difficult
circumstances. - CORRECT ANSWER - Executive attention
Jeremy at age 5 has the ability to control and sustain his ____________. As a result of his
vigilance, Jeremy will likely reach higher levels of school achievement. - CORRECT
ANSWER - attention
When a preschool child and an elementary school child are asked to compare two complex
pictures, the older child engages in a more systematic comparison of the pictures one detail at a
time. The older child is engaging in a higher degree of ___________ - CORRECT
ANSWER - planfullness
Mary is taking a test where she hears a random list of numbers like "7 . . . 4 . . . 9 . . . 3." As soon
as the reader is done reading the list of numbers, Mary is asked to recite the numbers in the
correct order. Mary is having her short-term ____________span tested. - CORRECT
ANSWER - memory
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Preoperational thought is the beginning of the ability to reconstruct in thought what has been
established in _____________ - CORRECT ANSWER - behavior
Jean Piaget claimed that during the preoperational stage children ________ perform mental
operations in their thought. - CORRECT ANSWER - cannot
Four-year-old Marta drew a picture with pretty lavender, purple, and blue colors intermixed with
green, yellow, and brown. "It's a boat on the ocean at sunset, with whales jumping all around it!"
she explained to her teacher. Marta is showing clear evidence of being in the __________
function substage of Piaget's preoperational stage. - CORRECT ANSWER - symbolic
Andrea cannot tell the difference between her own perspective and someone else's. Andrea is
experiencing ___________ - CORRECT ANSWER - egocentrism
Jean Piaget and Barbel Inhelder's three-mountain task was designed to test whether children are
able to see things from someone else's _____________ - CORRECT ANSWER -
perspective
"That teddy bear is looking at me funny," said Vanessa. This statement is an example of
__________ - CORRECT ANSWER - animism
Four-year-old Doug is driving his parents crazy with all his questions. He asks why everything is
the way it is, then why things aren't some other way. His parents might be comforted to know
that such questioning is characteristic of the _________ thought substage. - CORRECT
ANSWER - intuitive
_____________ refers to awareness that an object's or a substance's basic properties stay the
same even though its appearance has been altered. - CORRECT ANSWER - conservation
, The zone of ____________ development, introduced by Vygotsky, refers to the child's cognitive
skills that are in the process of maturing and can be accomplished only with the assistance of a
more-skilled person. - CORRECT ANSWER - proximal
Ross is helping his younger sister to write the letters of the alphabet. Ross began by writing the
letters first, then helped his sister trace the letters he had written, and finally watched as she
wrote them by herself. Ross was engaged in _____________ - CORRECT ANSWER -
scaffolding
Latoya talks to herself frequently, especially when trying to solve a difficult problem. Lev
Vygotsky would say that Latoya is using _____________ speech in order to plan, guide, and
monitor her own behavior. - CORRECT ANSWER - private
The ___________ _____________ approach is an approach that emphasizes the social contexts
of learning and the construction of knowledge through social interaction. - CORRECT
ANSWER - social constructivist
_____________ ____________ involves action planning, allocating attention to goals, error
detection and compensation, monitoring progress on tasks, and dealing with novel or difficult
circumstances. - CORRECT ANSWER - Executive attention
Jeremy at age 5 has the ability to control and sustain his ____________. As a result of his
vigilance, Jeremy will likely reach higher levels of school achievement. - CORRECT
ANSWER - attention
When a preschool child and an elementary school child are asked to compare two complex
pictures, the older child engages in a more systematic comparison of the pictures one detail at a
time. The older child is engaging in a higher degree of ___________ - CORRECT
ANSWER - planfullness
Mary is taking a test where she hears a random list of numbers like "7 . . . 4 . . . 9 . . . 3." As soon
as the reader is done reading the list of numbers, Mary is asked to recite the numbers in the
correct order. Mary is having her short-term ____________span tested. - CORRECT
ANSWER - memory
