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AP Psychology: Cognitive Development — Drill 14

Drill 14 · Multiple Choice · Unit 3: Development and Learning

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AP Psychology: Cognitive Development — Drill 14 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 3: Development and Learning. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.

AP Psychology practice questions on cognitive development across the lifespan, including Piaget's stages, Vygotsky's zone of proximal development, theory of mind, and the measurement of infant cognition for AP exam prep.

Questions in This Drill

  1. A 4-year-old watches his mother pour juice from a short, wide cup into a tall, narrow cup. He then insists the tall cup has "more juice" even though he just saw the same juice poured. According to Piaget, this child is best described as lacking which ability?
  2. A preschool teacher puts out a new puzzle that is just slightly too difficult for her students to finish on their own. She gives hints and asks leading questions until each child can solve it. According to Vygotsky, the teacher is working in the child's:
  3. Mei is 15. When her friend asks whether she would still want to be friends if they had grown up in very different countries, Mei can reason carefully about the hypothetical, consider multiple possibilities, and weigh values that do not match her actual experience. According to Piaget, Mei's reasoning best illustrates:
  4. A researcher wants to test whether Piaget underestimated infants' cognitive abilities. She designs a study in which 5-month-old infants watch a scene where a screen is raised to hide a block; a second block is then placed behind the screen; finally, when the screen drops, only one block is visible. The researcher measures how long each infant stares at this outcome versus a consistent two-block outcome. Longer looking at the one-block event is interpreted as surprise. What is the dependent variable in this study?
  5. A researcher runs a classic false-belief task on 120 children and reports the following percentages passing the task by age:

    • Age 3: 18%
    • Age 4: 52%
    • Age 5: 81%
    • Age 6: 89%

    A student looks at the data and makes four claims. Which claim is best supported by these data alone?