Piaget's stages of cognitive development

How many stages are in Piaget's theory?

• 5
• 9
• 4
• 2

The process of taking in new information and adding it to what the child already knows is called __________

• accommodation
• schemata
• assimilation
• all of the above

Problem solving and ______ are developed during the fourth stage, formal operational.

• questioning

• thinking

• listening

• reasoning

Piaget's theory of development focuses on predictable _____ stages.

• consecutive
• cognitive
• followed
• none of the above

__ are mental representations or concepts.

• schemas

• scenes

• theory

• adaptation

The first stage of development is the _____ stage.

• adaptation
• assimilation
• accommodation
• sensorimotor

During the preoperational stage children a very _________

• independent
• loud
• egocentric
• self centered

____ is adjusting what is already known to fit the new information.

• schemata
• assimilation
• accommodation
• Really?

According to Piaget a child acts like this sort of scientist

• solitary

• parallel

• onlooker

• associative

Cindy understands her world primarily by grasping and sucking easily available objects. Cindy is clearly in Piaget's ________ stage

• preoperational
• concrete operational
• sensorimotor
• formal operational