Four-year-old Jacob is shown two identical glasses of juice. While he watches, one glass of juice is poured into a short, wide glass. Piaget used this to test children's understanding of
A) animism.
B) accommodation.
C) assimilation.
D) conservation.
D) conservation. The understanding that some basic properties of objects remain the same even when a transformation changes the physical appearance is called conservation.
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Vygotsky's theory has its richest applications in cultures that
a. expect the child to learn autonomously via discovery. b. emphasize individual self-reliance early in childhood. c. emphasize observational learning of important actions. d. give the child direct verbal instruction/encouragement.
The ability to produce solutions to problems that are unusual, inventive, novel, and appropriate is called __________
a) creativity. b) insight. c) heuristics. d) latent learning.
The corpus callosum is a
A) large medical dictionary. B) source of hypothalamic hormones. C) membership directory of the Society for Neuroscience. D) part of the neocortex. E) neural pathway that connects the left and right hemispheres.
Research shows that if a pregnant mother is exposed to a harmful environmental factor, this can affect the ______________ for a lifetime.
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