Cognitive Development

According to Piaget, children are ______ in constructing their understanding of the world.

• Active

• Passive

• Neutral

• By standers

Children in the preoperational stage have difficulty taking the perspective of another person. This is known as:

• Egocentrism

• Object Permanence

• Reversibility

• Metacognition

Two containers hold the same amount, but Jane thinks that the taller, skinnier glass holds more. This is known as:

• Object Permanence

• Ego centrism

• Conservation

• Reversibility

Piaget believed that children in the concrete operational stage have difficulty with:

• Conservation

• Deductive

• Inductive

• Perspective

Jean Piaget was a:

• Child psychologist

• Child psychiatrist

• Genetic Epistemologist

• Geneticist

The ability to think abstractly and systematically solve problems emerges during the:

• Sensorimotor Stage

• Pre-Operational

• Concrete Operational

• Formal Operational

A child learns on object permanence during the _____.

• Sensorimotor Stage

• Pre-Operational

• Concrete Operational

• Formal Operational

the process of incorporating new information into one's existing knowledge of the world

• Accomodation

• Assimilation

• Object Permanence

• Reversibility

the process through which one changes their existing mental structures and schemes in order to accommodate new information.

• Accomodation

• Assimilation

• Object Permanence

• Reversibility

How many stages are there in Piaget's theory?

• 5

• 4

• 3

• 2