Piaget

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

In which of the following stages will children learn the concept of conservation?

• preoperational
• concrete operational
• sensorimotor
• formal operational

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

Does the formal operational phase include adolescents to create reason to think in hypothetical terms?

• True

• False

What is the goal of Piaget's Theory?

• To explain the mechanisms and processes by which infants and then children develop into individuals

• To track child development as children age.

• To finally understand why these hip young kids won't get off his lawn.

• To create a road map for cognitive development.

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

• Elimination

• Reversibility

• Object Permanence

• Conceptualize

How many stages are in Piaget's cognitive development 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

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.