Psychology - Ch. 8, Part 2

Which of the following is not a physical change that takes place in infancy?

• Fetal Development
• Reflexes
• Motor Development
• Brain Development

______________ development includes the development of thinking, problem solving, and memory.

• Cognitive Development
• Motor Development
• Brain Development
• Fetal Development

Piaget believed that children form mental concepts or _______ as they experience new situations and events. For example, if Sandy points to a picture of an apple and tells her child, “that’s an apple,” the child forms a _______ for “apple” that looks something like that picture.

• Schemes
• Object Permanence
• Conservation
• Irreversibility

This stage is the first of Piaget’s stages, and concerns infants from birth to age 2. In this stage, infants use their senses and motor abilities to learn about the world around them.

• Sensorimotor Stage
• Preoperational Stage
• Concrete Operations Stage
• Formal Operations Stage

By the end of the sensorimotor stage, infants have fully developed a sense of __________, the knowledge that an object exists even when it is not in sight.

• Object Permanence
• Conservation
• Centration
• Irreversibility

This stage, according to Piaget, is a time of developing language and concepts.

• Preoperational Stage
• Sensorimotor Stage
• Concrete Operations Stage
• Formal Operations Stage

___________ is the inability to see the world through anyone else’s eyes but one’s own.

• Egocentrism
• Object Permanence
• Schemes
• Conversation

Which of the following is not a characteristic of the Preoperational Stage?

• Object Permanence
• Centration
• Conservation
• Irreversibility

In this stage, according to Piaget, children finally become capable of conservation and reversible thinking, and centration no longer occurs. They being to think more logically and ask questions.

• Concrete Operations Stage
• Sensorimotor Stage
• Preoperational Stage
• Formal Operations Stage

This is the last of Piaget’s stages, and is when abstract thinking becomes possible. Teenagers not only understand concepts that have no physical reality, but also get deeply involved in hypothetical thinking.

• Formal Operations
• Concrete Operations Stage
• Sensorimotor Stage
• Preoperational Stage