Children who begin to accurately answer questions about the mental states that others may experience, including desires, deceptions, and beliefs, are said to be acquiring an understanding of
a. perspective taking. c. configurational knowledge.
b. realism. d. theory of mind.
Question 2
It has been said that Rousseau's ideas on the nature of education were incorporated into the twentieth-century writings of Jean Piaget. Both Rousseau and Piaget believed that
a. teachers should capitalize on the natural curiosity of children and allow them to discover and construct their own knowledge.
b. children should be forced to memorize by rote the information that adults in the larger society deem necessary.
c. children are passive subjects that require great structure in education.
d. education should not be based upon reason until the teen years.