Principles of Supporting Cognitive Development in Infants Include All EXCEPT

question 28

Multiple Choice

Principles of supporting cognitive development in infants include all EXCEPT

• A) learning comes through interaction with materials and people.
• B) learning is unpredictable and random.
• C) relationships are important in a learning environment.
• D) adults follow infants' lead.

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Definitions:

Novel Situations

Novel situations refer to new, unfamiliar, or unique circumstances or environments that individuals encounter, often requiring adaptation or new learning.

Fluid Intelligence

The aspect of intelligence that involves the ability to reason and think flexibly, solving new problems without relying on previously acquired knowledge.

Information Processing

A cognitive approach to understanding how the human mind transforms sensory information into thoughts, memories, and knowledge through processes such as perception, attention, encoding, storage, and retrieval.

Primary Mental Abilities

a theory suggesting that intelligence is made up of several primary abilities, such as reasoning, verbal comprehension, numerical skills, and spatial visualization, that are distinct from each other.