Author Question: If you were interested in how a child's culture influences cognitive development, you would be most ... (Read 79 times)

NguyenJ · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

If you were interested in how a child's culture influences cognitive development, you would be most likely to consider ________ approach to cognitive development.

a. Vygotsky's
b. a neurological
c. information processing theory's
d. Piaget's

Question 2

Which one of the following statements best describes a cognitive-developmental perspective of child development?

a. Children are naturally disposed to think about their environment in particular ways; in a sense, some basic knowledge about the world is pre-wired.
b. Children construct increasingly sophisticated views of the world based on their many experiences with it.
c. Initially, children unconsciously develop a rather complex and confused view of the world, but this view becomes simpler and more straightforward as time goes on.
d. Children repeatedly parrot their parents' and teachers' beliefs, eventually adopting these beliefs as their own knowledge.