UWEC Psych 230 exam 2 Questions and
Answers
Just Right - ANSWER-The tendency of children to insist on having things done in a particular way. This
can include clothes, food, bedtime routines, and so on.
Injury control/harm reduction - ANSWER-Practices that are aimed at anticipating, controlling...
Preoperational intelligence - ANSWER✔✔-Piaget's term for cognitive development between the ages of
about 2 and 6; it includes language and imagination, but logical, operational thinking is not yet possible.
Symbolic thought - ANSWER✔✔-The concept that an object or word can stand for something else,
including something pretend or something not seen. Once symbolic thought is possible, language
becomes much more useful.
Animism - ANSWER✔✔-The belief that natural objects and phenomena are alive.
Centration - ANSWER✔✔-A characteristic of preoperational thought whereby a young child focuses on
one idea, excluding all others.
Egocentrism - ANSWER✔✔-Piaget's term for young children's tendency to think about the world entirely
from their own personal perspective.
Focus on appearance - ANSWER✔✔-A characteristic of pre operational thought whereby a young child
ignores all attributions that are not apparent.
Static reasoning - ANSWER✔✔-A characteristic of pre operational thought whereby a young child thinks
that nothing changes. Whatever is now has always been and always will be.
Irreversibility - ANSWER✔✔-A characteristic of pre operational thought whereby a young child thinks
that nothing can be undone. A thing cannot be restored to the way it was before a change occurred.
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