Complex Motor Activities Such as Riding a Bicycle

question 21

Multiple Choice

Complex motor activities such as riding a bicycle

• A)only require neural processing at the level of the cerebrum.
• B)with practice,involve little input from the brain.
• C)require the coordinated activity of several regions of the brain.
• D)are largely controlled at the level of the spinal cord.
• E)usually escape notice by the cerebellum.

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Definitions:

Object Permanence

Piaget’s term for the understanding that a person or object still exists when out of sight.

Centration

In Piaget’s theory, the tendency of preoperational children to focus on one aspect of a situation and neglect others.

Socioeconomic Status

A measure of an individual's or family's economic and social position in relation to others, based on income, education, and occupation.

Deferred Imitation

Piaget’s term for reproduction of an observed behavior after the passage of time by calling up a stored symbol of it.