AP Psych Development

What is the first stage of Piaget's cognitive development?

• Preoperational
• Sensorimotor 
• Formal operational
• Concrete operational

During the preoperational stage...

• children begin to use logic
• focuses on motor skills
• the adolescent gains ability to formulate complicated verbal arguments
• intense language learning takes place

The sensorimotor stage focuses primarily on..

• motor skills
• language development
• understanding of others perspective
• understanding complex mathematics

An infant who has developed object permanence...

• is attached to specific objects, such as a blanket.
• will see all objects as being the same.
• knows that an object, such as a rattle, exists even if it is not in view.
• cries when a wanted object is taken away.

When the baby's cheek is stroked they turn towards the side it was stroked and begins making sucking motions

• rooting reflex
• sucking reflex
• grasp reflex
• Babinski reflex

According to Piaget, accommodation refers to

• parental efforts to include new children in the existing family structure
• incorporating new experiences into existing schemas.
• developmental changes in a child's behavior that facilitate social acceptance by family and peers.
• adjusting current categories in order to make sense of new experiences.

According to Piaget, during the formal operational stage people begin to:

• reason abstractly
• adhere to social norms
• distinguish between good and bad behaviors
• become aware of the positive and negative consequences of their own behaviors

According to Piaget, children come to understand that the volume of a substance remains constant despite changes in its shape during the ________ stage.

• sensorimotor
• preoperational
• concrete operational
• formal operational

Interpreting new experiences in terms of existing categories of information is called:

• learning
• assimilation
• accomodation
• object permanence 

According to Lawrence Kohlberg, behavior directed by self-accepted moral principles is an example of what stage of moral development?

• Preconventional
•  Conventional
•  Postconventional
•  Nonconventional