Regarding Piaget and Vygotsky's Views of Cognitive Development, Which of the Following

question 703

Multiple Choice

Regarding Piaget and Vygotsky's views of cognitive development, which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A)Piaget gave too little credit to the role of maturation in cognitive development.
• B)Vygotsky focused on the impact of sociocultural factors on cognitive development.
• C)Piaget gave too little credit to the effects of the learning environment on cognitive development.
• D)Vygotsky's key insight is that children's thinking develops through dialogues with more capable persons.

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Definitions:

Chi-squared

A statistical test used to determine if there is a significant difference between observed frequencies and expected frequencies in categorized variables.

Critical Values

Specific points in the distribution of the test statistic beyond which the null hypothesis is rejected in hypothesis testing.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of values in a calculation that are free to vary without violating any constraints applied to the dataset, often impacting statistical significance testing.

Left Tail Area

refers to the portion of a distribution curve to the left of a specified value, often associated with finding probabilities in statistical analysis.