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Questions:

1. How do the processes of assimilation and accommodation help share their development?

2. Describe the object concept the children acquire during the sensorimotor period and the experimental process by which Piaget measured object permanence.

3. Describe the habituation method and the use of "surprise" to impossible events that are used to study cognitive development.

4. Describe the respective roles of nature and nurture in guiding development.

5. Describe the cognitive process of conservation.

6. Define egocentrism.

7. Define theory of mind, describe how this can be experimentally measured, and state the relationship of theory of mind with purposeful deception (I.e. lying).

8. Define and provide an example for the three kinds of social skills that aid cognitive development: joint attention, social referencing, and imitation

9. Define attachment, and list the reasons why attachments are formed.

10. Define contact comfort, describe the experiments of Harry Harlow that illustrate its importance, and describe the observations of the importance of contact comfort in pre-maturely-born infants.

11. Outline the Strange Situation Test, and be able to identify the three primary attachment categories: securely attached, insecurely attached-avoidant, and insecurely attached-ambivalent.

12. Define temperament, and use this concept to describe how attachment involves both the parent and child.