The "Binding Problem" Is the Question of

question 173

Multiple Choice

The "binding problem" is the question of

• A) how a person coordinates the left arm with the right arm.
• B) how children learn to produce grammatical, meaningful sentences.
• C) how it is possible for people with different personalities to work together.
• D) how activity in separate brain areas produces a single experience.

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Definitions:

Egocentrism

The inability to differentiate between one's own perspective and someone else's perspective.

Concrete Operational

A stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, from about 7 to 11 years of age, where children can use logic to solve problems but still struggle with abstract and hypothetical concepts.

Piaget's Stages

the theory proposed by Jean Piaget that outlines the four stages of cognitive development in children: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.

Conservation

A cognitive ability, identified by Piaget, that enables a child to understand that substances remain the same in quantity even when their shapes change.