Give an example how recent research refutes some of Piaget's understanding of preschool children's abilities.
What will be an ideal response?
- Developmental psychologist Rochel Gelman found that children as young as age 3 can easily tell the difference between rows of two and three toy animals regardless of the toys' spacing.
- Gelman concludes that children have an innate ability to count, akin to learning language This is at odds with Piagetian notions, which suggest that children's numerical abilities do not blossom until after the preoperational period.
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a. In stroke, involuntary movements of the limbs are affected. b. Behavioral effects appear suddenly in stroke, as compared to their gradual appearance in NCD. c. Impairment is often bilateral in stroke, while impairment is unilateral in NCD. d. Behavioral effects appear gradually in stroke, as compared to their sudden appearance in NCD.
Cognitive therapy has been used as a remedy for many problems, but it has been especially successful in treating
a. depression. b. delusional disorders. c. schizophrenia. d. depersonalization.
Each zygote contains _____ chromosomes.
A) 23 B) 24 C) 46 D) 48
If an adopted child is more similar on a particular characteristic to his/her natural parents than to the adoptive parents, we can conclude that:
a. the adoptive parents have tried very hard to raise the child as their own. b. heredity is solely responsible for who we become. c. environment is solely responsible for who we become. d. genetics play a role in the development of that particular characteristic.