Cognitive Development

Oliver, Scarlett, and Priya are playing hide and seek. Oliver hides behind a tree and Scarlett and Priya can't see him. However, they know he's still there. This is an example of what concept?

• Elimination

• Reversibility

• Object Permanence

• Conceptualize

The stage in Piaget's Theory where a child have the ability to systematically solve a problem in a logical and methodological way.

• Sensorimotor Stage

• Preoperational Stage

• Concrete Operational Stage

• Formal Operational Stage

Nora, Benjamin, and Ethan are studying psychology and they came across Piaget's cognitive development theory. Can you help them understand how many stages are there in this theory?

• 1

• 6

• 3

• 4

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

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

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.

All of the following are stages in Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory EXCEPT:

• Sensorimotor Stage

• Preoperational Stage

• Concrete Operational Stage

• Formal Operational Stage

• Sensory Operational Stage

It happens when the existing schema does not work and needs to be changed

• Cognition

• Schema

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

Which stage of cognitive development describes children who are beginning to think symbolically and incorporate pretend play?

• Sensorimotor Stage

• Preoperational Stage

• Concrete Operational Stage

• Formal Operational Stage