5 Written Questions

1. interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schemas
2. a disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of others' states of mind
3. all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
4. physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking. in severe cases, symptoms include noticeable facial misproportions
5. adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information

5 Matching Questions

1. formal operational stage
2. teratogens
3. habituation
4. fetus
5. schema

1. a a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information
2. b the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth
3. c agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm
4. d in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (normally beginning about age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts
5. e decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. as infants gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a visual stimulus, their interest wanes and they look away sooner

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. the fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo
   1. fetus
   2. cognition
   3. zygotes
   4. autism
2. in Piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2 to 6 or 7 year of age) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic
   1. formal operational stage
   2. sensorimotor stage
   3. preoperational stage
   4. concrete operational stage
3. the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived
   1. object permanence
   2. conservation
   3. schema
   4. teratogens
4. biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience
   1. conservation
   2. maturation
   3. habituation
   4. autism
5. in Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view
   1. zygotes
   2. cognition
   3. egocentrism
   4. autism

5 True/False Questions

1. developmental psychologists → in Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view

   True        False

2. theory of mind → people's ideas about their own and other's mental states--about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts and the behavior these might predict

   True        False

3. rooting reflex → in Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view

   True        False

4. conservation → biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience

   True        False

5. sensorimotor stage → in Piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2 to 6 or 7 year of age) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic

   True        False