Question

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1. the ______________ approach is concerned with the mental processes of learning and memory
2. the ______________ approach seeks to determine and measure quantitatively the factors that make up intelligence.
3. the ______________ approach is concerned with qualitative stages of cognitive development.
4. the ______________ is a standardized test of an infants mental and motor development.
5. the ______________ period includes crying, cooing, babbling, and imitating language sounds.
6. ______________ is a simple form of learning in which familiarity with a stimulus reduces, slows, or stops a response.
7. historically, two opposing views about how children acquire language were the ____________ theory, which emphasizes the role of reinforcement and imitation, and the ____________ theory, which maintains that children have an inborn language acquisition device.
8. words and phrases form during the ______________ period.
9. during the ______________ stage, from about birth to 2 years, infants cognitive and behavioral schemes become more elaborate.
10. ______________ involves understanding that one event causes another.

Explanation:

1. Cognitive psychology focuses on mental processes like learning and memory.
2. Psychometric approach measures intelligence factors quantitatively.
3. Piaget's cognitive - development approach has qualitative stages.
4. Bayley Scales are for infant mental and motor development.
5. Pre - linguistic period has crying, cooing etc.
6. Habituation is the described simple learning.
7. Behaviorist (reinforcement/imitation) and nativist (inborn device) theories.
8. Linguistic period for word/phrase formation.
9. Sensorimotor stage (birth - 2 years) for cognitive/behavioral scheme elaboration.
10. Causal reasoning is about one event causing another.

Answer:

1. cognitive
2. psychometric
3. Piagetian
4. Bayley Scales
5. pre - linguistic
6. Habituation
7. behaviorist; nativist
8. linguistic
9. sensorimotor
10. Causal reasoning