Piaget Review

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

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

Four-year-old Jennifer mistakenly believes that her mother would like to receive a toy doll as a Christmas present. This best illustrates Piaget's concept of:

• accommodation
• attachment
• object permanence
• egocentricism

The ability to use deductive logic, think abstractly and systematically solve problems emerges during the:

• Concrete Operational Stage
• Sensorimotor Stage
• Formal Operational Stage 
• Preoperational State 

Sally attempts to retrieve her teddy bear after her father hides it under a blanket. This suggests that Sally has developed a sense of

• egocentrism.

• object permanence.

• conservation.

• accommodation.

Within the classroom learning should be student centered and accomplished through active discovery learning. The role of the teacher is to facilitate learning, rather than direct tuition. Therefore, teachers should encourage the following within the classroom:

• Focus on the process of learning, rather than end product of it

• using collaborative as well as individual activites

• evaluate the level of the childs development so suitable task can be set

• All of the above

Piaget's cognitive development has been instrumental in determining the structure of educational curricula.

• True

• False

What is the most important development at the Preoperational stage?

• language

• shapes

• problem-solving skills

• reasoning

A schema is a:

• Framework of knowledge that allows us to interpret and understand the world

• Process of taking in new information

• Process of balancing old and new information

• I don't know!