Motor skills

Learned in an all-or-none fashion

Which growth principle makes the ability to write neatly emerge relatively late?

Proximodistal order

At what age does handedness come out? And what percent are right handed?

6 years old; 90% are right handed

During preschool years, brain growth is especially rapid in...

The left hemisphere

According to Piaget, children are in which stage of cognitive development from ages 2-7?

Preoperational

The primary reason preschoolers think illogically (according to Piaget) is that they...

Lack mental operations

(think preoperational-pre-mental operations=lack of mental operations)

Preschoolers perform poorly on standard Piagetian tasks because...

The questions violate the basic rules of language and conversation

The information-processing approach states that

young children have a limited ability to work with mental information

Jaques and Zelazo desiged a card task to measure which two abilities that are part of executive processing?

abstraction and cognitive flexibility

Erickson's Initiative vs. Guilt

Children compare themselves to others and want to master what other people have mastered 

According to researcher Nancy Stein...

Preschoolers use the same causal schemes adults use to understand and react to events

At what age do children typically start to compare their performance to standards?

3-4 years