HTHRHSC 3500 Exam 1 questions with verified
answers
accommodation Ans✓✓✓ Piaget's term for changes in cognitive
structure to include new information
adaptation Ans✓✓✓ Piaget's term for adjustment to new information
about the environment achieved through processes of assimilation and
accommodation
assimilation Ans✓✓✓ Piaget's term for incorporation of new
information into an existing cognitive structure
behaviorism Ans✓✓✓ learning theory that emphasizes the predictable
role of the environment in causing observable behavior
bioecological theory Ans✓✓✓ Bronfenbrenner's approach to
understanding processes and contexts of human development that
identifies five levels of environmental influence
case study Ans✓✓✓ study of a single subject, such as an individual or
family
classical conditioning Ans✓✓✓ learning based on associating a
stimulus that does not ordinarily elicit a response with another stimulus
that does elicit response
, cognitive development Ans✓✓✓ pattern of change in mental abilites,
such as learning, attention memory language thinking reasoning and
creativity
cognitive neuroscience Ans✓✓✓ study of links between neural
processes and cognitive abilities
cognitive perspective Ans✓✓✓ view that thought processes are central
to development
cognitive stage theory Ans✓✓✓ Piaget's theory that children's
cognitive development advances in a series of four stages involving
qualitatively distinct types of mental operations
cohort Ans✓✓✓ a group of people born at about the same time
contextual perspective Ans✓✓✓ view of human development that
sees the individual as inseparable from the social context
control group Ans✓✓✓ in an experiment, a group of people, similar to
those in the experimental group who do not receive the treatment
under study
answers
accommodation Ans✓✓✓ Piaget's term for changes in cognitive
structure to include new information
adaptation Ans✓✓✓ Piaget's term for adjustment to new information
about the environment achieved through processes of assimilation and
accommodation
assimilation Ans✓✓✓ Piaget's term for incorporation of new
information into an existing cognitive structure
behaviorism Ans✓✓✓ learning theory that emphasizes the predictable
role of the environment in causing observable behavior
bioecological theory Ans✓✓✓ Bronfenbrenner's approach to
understanding processes and contexts of human development that
identifies five levels of environmental influence
case study Ans✓✓✓ study of a single subject, such as an individual or
family
classical conditioning Ans✓✓✓ learning based on associating a
stimulus that does not ordinarily elicit a response with another stimulus
that does elicit response
, cognitive development Ans✓✓✓ pattern of change in mental abilites,
such as learning, attention memory language thinking reasoning and
creativity
cognitive neuroscience Ans✓✓✓ study of links between neural
processes and cognitive abilities
cognitive perspective Ans✓✓✓ view that thought processes are central
to development
cognitive stage theory Ans✓✓✓ Piaget's theory that children's
cognitive development advances in a series of four stages involving
qualitatively distinct types of mental operations
cohort Ans✓✓✓ a group of people born at about the same time
contextual perspective Ans✓✓✓ view of human development that
sees the individual as inseparable from the social context
control group Ans✓✓✓ in an experiment, a group of people, similar to
those in the experimental group who do not receive the treatment
under study
