Identify and describe Vygotsky's stages of cognitive development from birth to age 7

What will be an ideal response?


Primitive stage = mental processes similar to those of lower animals; child learns primarily through conditioning until language develops in the 2nd year; naive psychology stage = use of language but lacking understand of its symbolic characteristics; private speech stage = language used as a guide to solve problems; ingrowth stage = internalization of speech routines acquired from older children and adults in the world around them and interaction with the physical world.

Psychology

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Which of the following statements about marital satisfaction is correct?

a. In the first weeks after marriage, young men are significantly happier than young women. b. Couples' satisfaction with their marriages changes substantially as a function of the number of years of marriage. c. Women's marital happiness is at an all-time high when their children are in the preschool period. d. For both men and women, marital satisfaction decreases gradually over the duration of the marriage.

Psychology

As a result of the court ruling in Larry P. v. Wilson Riles,

a. schools were forced to provide special classes for non-white children. b. IQ testing was no longer used to place African American children in EMR classes. c. standardized tests could no longer be used with bilingual children. d. all handicapped children were guaranteed services.

Psychology

In the United States in 1900,

a. death rates were significantly higher than they are today b. women had higher death rates than males c. members of lower socioeconomic classes tended on average to have lower death rates than members of middle and upper socioeconomic classes in our society d. children had lower death rates than they do today e. parents seldom experienced the death of a child

Psychology

Zoe is a street child from Kenya. She is less likely than her brother Fadi to __________.

A. keep in touch with their family B. be a victim of sexual abuse C. be shunned by their family D. be forced into sex work

Psychology