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JGIBBSON · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Researchers have found that when we human beings think about performing a particular physical skill (e.g., using scissors, dribbling a basketball), we activate some of the same brain regions that we use when actually executing that skill. Which one of the following concepts best reflects this research finding?

a. Guided participation
b. Intersubjectivity
c. Appropriation
d. Embodiment

Question 2

Three of the following statements are consistent with neo-Piagetian perspectives of cognitive development. Which statement is not?

a. Formal instruction can have a significant impact on children's cognitive development.
b. Incomplete brain maturation limits how much children at any particular age can do.
c. Through their everyday experiences, children learn some of the basic patterns in their environment even without intentionally trying to do so.
d. Cognitive development is better characterized as a series of seven (rather than four) general stages.