What is the criticism of Piaget’s stage-like shift to concrete operations?

What will be an ideal response?

Answer: The criticism, based on research data, is that the shift is more gradual rather than sudden.

Psychology

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According to Chomsky's nativist view of language acquisition:

a. humans are born with a hard-wired set of principles and rules that govern learning grammar in all languages b. grammar is a by-product of the growth of vocabulary and increasingly complex thought c. learning new words is a domain general skill that develops through connectionism d. children learn language primarily through imitation and operant conditioning

Psychology

Which of the following statements is true?

a. The same parenting approach may have differing effects even on children in the same family. b. The authoritarian parenting style benefits children’s socioemotional and cognitive development. c. Children raised with the permissive parenting approach have the most rapid cognitive and socioemotional development. d. The parent-child relationship is probably not a reciprocal one.

Psychology