Describe the major contributions and limitations of the preoperational period
What will be an ideal response?
A good answer would include the following key points:
- Period of both stability and change
- Symbolic thinking grows
- Symbolic function
- Substantial increase in language
- Mental reasoning emerges, emergence of intuitive thought
- Use of concepts increases
- Not yet capable of operations
- Centration
- Conservation
- Transformation
- Egocentrism
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A. Mrs. Quinn, a third-grade teacher, is planning a new approach to reduce inattention in some of her students. B. Short-term memory holds about seven pieces of information. C. The brain structure called the thalamus relays sensory information to other parts of the brain. D. Most people are likely to obey an authority figure.
Cassie knew that her radio only worked if it was by her window in her high-rise apartment. When her cell phone wasn't getting a signal in a big office building, she tried moving to the window to improve reception. Cassie's problem solving strategy is characteristic of:
a. the working backward heuristic b. the availability heuristic c. the searching for analogies heuristic d. a means-ends analysis
A psychologist observes the confrontation between two rival neighborhood gangs from the window of an abandoned building. This method of collecting observations is best described as
a. experimental regression. b. naturalistic observation. c. controlled experimentation. d. clinical case study.
According to Carl Rogers, infants are born with a natural tendency to value themselves based on internal standards. This is called the ____
a. ?organismic valuing process b. ?self-confirmation system c. ?ego defense mechanism d. ?principle of self-preservation