Baltes and Colleagues (2006) Has Suggested That Cognitive Development Is

question 71

True/False

Baltes and colleagues (2006) has suggested that cognitive development is "plastic," which means that intellectual deficits can be "fixed" with the right kind of interventions.

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Definitions:

Birth

The act or process of being born, marking the beginning of life outside the mother's womb.

Functionalism

A school of psychology emphasizing questions such as why the mind or a particular cognitive process works the way(s) it does.

Structuralism

One of the earliest schools of cognitive psychology. It focused on the search for the simplest possible mental elements and the laws governing the ways they could be combined.

Laboratory Experimentation

A methodological approach within scientific research where variables are controlled and manipulated to determine their effects on outcomes of interest in a lab setting.