Homework Six

1. Recent challenges to Piaget's view of the preoperational child are supported by evidence that:
preschooler's responses on Piagetian tasks do not reflect their true abilities.
preschooler's cannot be trained to do well on Piagetian tasks.
children this age cannot demonstrate conservation on any type of task.
Piaget was totally wrong about preschooler's cognitive capacities.

2. The preoperational belief that inanimate objects have lifelike qualities is called .

3. Whose view of a child's tendency to talk to themselves during play is most accepted in the research community today, Piaget's or Vgotsky's? .

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the four factors that are especially important in determining day care quality?
group size home-based versus center-based caregiver/ child ratio caregiver's educational training

5. Young Colleen says, "I go school, too."  Her mother says, "Yes, you are going to school too."  Her mother's response would be classified as:
:repetition and correction
:correction and reflection
:rejection and restatement
:expansion and recast