A Criticism of Both the Core Knowledge Perspective and Piaget's

question 126

Multiple Choice

A criticism of both the core knowledge perspective and Piaget's theory focuses on

• A) how they ignore children's independent efforts to construct knowledge.
• B) their inability to explain how heredity and environment jointly produce cognitive change.
• C) how they underestimate the cognitive competencies of children and adolescents.
• D) their inability to account for or explain stagewise change.

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Definitions:

Storage Decay

The fading or weakening of memories over time when information is not accessed or used, related to the theory of forgetting in psychology.

Imagination Inflation

A situation where visualizing an event that never took place can boost the belief that it really happened.

Overlearning

The process of continuing to practice or study beyond just achieving initial mastery, enhancing performance and recall.

Retention

The ability to keep or hold information in memory over a period of time.