Piaget schema

Which of the following implications cannot be derived from Piaget’s theory of cognitive development?

(Which of the following implications cannot be derived from Piaget’s theory of cognitive development?

• Acceptance of individual differences

• Sensitivity of children’s readiness to learn

• Discovery learning

• Need of verbal teaching

According to Jean Piaget, schema building occurs as a result of modifying new information to fit existing schemes and by modifying old schemes as per new information. These two processes are known as:

• assimilation and adaptation

• accommodation and adaptation

• equilibration and modification

• assimilation and accommodation

A schema is a:

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

• Process of taking in new information

• Process of balancing old knowledge and new informtion

• none of the above

Jane has learned to feed herself with a spoon. When her mother gives her a fork she immediately begins to feed herself. Jane has _______ the fork into her schema for utensils.

• Accommodated

• Appropriated

• Assimilated

• Initiated

Piaget assumed that children are ___________ in constructing understanding of the world.

• Passive

• Active

• Neutral

• Bystanders

Jane's mother has two crackers, both of equal size. She breaks one of the crackers up into four pieces. Jane says she wants the one with the most and immediately chooses the four pieces, even though the two amounts are equal. Jane's choice illustrates Piaget's concept of:

• Accommodation

• Egocentrism

• False belief

• Conservation

Jacob is using an existing schema to deal with a new object or situation. Which adaptation process is he using?

• Cognition

• Schema

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

Janie knows that a bird has wings and can fly. While camping she finds a bat and thinks it's a bird, but realizes that it doesn't act the same way as a bird. She is confused. She is using what adaptation process with this new knowledge?

• Cognition

• Schema

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding via thought, experience, and the senses.

• Cognition

• Assimilation

• Schema

• Accommodation

It is the idea that objects exist even if they are out of sight.

• Elimination

• Reversibility

• Object Permanence

• Conceptualize