Human Psychological Development

What are the 4 levels of understanding in psychology?

• Biological, Psychological, Socio-cultural, Basic Processes

• Biological, Personal, Socio-cultural, Basic Processes

• Biological, Personality, Socio-cultural, Basic Processes

• Biological, Personal, Socio-cultural, Basic Thoughts

This cognitive achievement is why peek-a-boo works with babies

• Imprinting

• Representational thought

• Accommodation

• Object Permanence

A cognitive achievement that involves understanding that quantity stays the same despite the shape.

• Object permanence

• Conservation

• egocentrism

• Schema

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

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

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

Piaget study only children. He came up with 4 stages of development. The correct order of the stages was

• sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational and then formal operational.

• preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational and then sensorimotor.

• sensorimotor, concrete operational, formal operational and then preoperational.

• Preoperational, concrete operational, sensorimotor and then formal operational.

Trinh believes that the clouds 'look sad today'. Piaget refers to this way of thinking about objects as

• animism
• centricism
• classification
• transformation

What is, the tendency to view the world for your own perspective without recognizing that others may have different viewpoints.

• egocentrism

• conservation

• representational thought

• accommodation

What is Cognition?

• Actions involving running and jumping

• Actions that involve nothing

• All of the actions or processes involving thinking and knowing

Accommodation is the process of

• organising existing mental schemata into larger networks

• creating new schemata in light of new information

• understanding new information in light of existing schemata

• understanding the permanence of unseen objects