According to Piaget, sensorimotor development refers to the stage in life during which infants:

The circumference of an infant’s head provides little information about brain development.

Evidence does NOT support the concept of sensitive periods in development.

The ability to recognize themselves in the mirror:

Studies by Baillargeon and her colleagues using violation-of-expectation techniques have provided some evidence that infants’ knowledge of objects:

Social learning theory extends the ideas of behaviorism by:

Children often attribute humanlike properties to all living things.

No-nonsense parenting is characterized by a mixture of high parental control, including physical restraint and punishment, and low affection.

Sternberg’s “triarchic” theory of intelligence proposes that there are three kinds of intelligences:

Formal education is the most structured type of explicit education.