Deck 7: Assessing Physical Fitness

Question 1

Describe the main features of the sub-stages of Piaget's sensorimotor period of cognitive development.

Answer 1

Response should correctly identify order, and link sensorimotor sub-stages 0 through 6 and their contribution to the development of representational thought by 18 months of age. Features discussed should include circular reactions and actions directed towards self, objects, and others, as well as the role of novelty in the creation of representational schemas.

Question 2

In conceptualizing cognitive development, what is meant by "relational" and "complexity" in Halford's relational complexity theory?

Answer 2

Relational complexity theory views cognitive development as the result of the differentiation of working memory that facilitates the capacity to deal with tasks of increasing complexity. Task complexity is based not on the amount of information being processed but rather on complexity of relations that exist among pieces of information.

Question 3

According to Piaget, accommodation is a _____ process:

A) General and adaptive
B) Specific and adaptive
C) Specific and organizing
D) General and organizing

Answer 3

A

Question 4

In Piaget's cognitive theory, _____ appear(s) as the result of clustering _____ produced by _____:

A) Stages; efficient schemes; equilibrium
B) Efficient schemes; equilibrium; stages
C) Equilibrium; stages; efficient schemes
D) Stages; equilibrium; efficient schemes

Question 5

According to Piaget, sensorimotor thought comprises _____ sub-stages that cumulate in the ability to solve problems using _____:

A) 6; mental representations
B) 6; language
C) 5; assimilation
D) 5; accommodation

Question 6

Which of the following are properties of formal operational thought?

A) Abstract
B) Deductive
C) Interpropositional
D) All of these

Question 7

According to Birney and Sternberg, which of the following is NOT likely a component of cognitive creativity?

A) Confidence
B) Flexibility
C) Experience
D) Knowledge

Question 8

Which of the following is most likely to use a correlational approach to assess individuals' cognitive abilities?

A) Psychometric approach
B) Information processing approach
C) Quasi-experimental approach
D) Piagetian approach

Question 9

Psychometric approaches tend to view general intelligence as separable into two factors, _____ and _____:

A) Fluid intelligence; crystallized intelligence
B) Creativity; wisdom
C) Processing speed; verbal comprehension
D) Flexibility; knowledge

Question 10

Which of the following is NOT one of the five cognitive competencies that comprise expertise in Sternberg's triarchic model of successful intelligence?

A) Emotional regulation
B) Motivation
C) Knowledge-acquisition skills
D) Metacognitive skills

Question 11

Sternberg's triarchic theory conceptualizes successful intelligence as the ability to achieve success in life by adapting _____ skills to the environment:

A) Analytic, creative, and practical
B) Cognitive, social, emotional
C) Linguistic, artistic, problem-solving
D) Memory, cognitive, metacognitive

Question 12

What features of dynamic systems theories does Sternberg's triarchic theory employ in its description of successful intelligence?

Question 13

Describe how, according to Birney and Sternberg, wisdom relates to at least three other cognitive abilities. Please illustrate your response with examples of how wisdom stresses certain features of the cognitive abilities you choose to address.