Which one of the following statements best describes a nativist 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 actively construct their own view of the world from their experiences with the environment.
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.
Question 2
Which one of the following statements best describes a theory theory view of cognitive development?
a. Children form general belief systems about how the world operates.
b. The ways in which children organize and integrate their experiences usually have little relevance to physical reality.
c. In the early years, children develop concrete understandings of events; these understandings become increasingly abstract as they reach adolescence.
d. Beginning at around age 3, children form hypotheses about the nature of the world and test those hypotheses in much the same way that a scientist would.
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