Jean Piaget's Theory

This is the process of fitting a new experience into an existing or previously created cognitive structure or schema.

• schema

• assimilation

• accommodation

• equilibration

This refers to the cognitive structures by which individuals intellectually adapt to and organize their environment.

• disequilibrium

• assimilation

• accommodation

• schema

A child silently nods on the telephone to answer his Father who is on the other side of the phone inquiring if Mom is around. Which of the following characteristics does the child demonstrates?

• animism

• centration

• egocentrism

• symbolic function

Karl does not realize that the juice in each glass can be poured back into the juice box from which it came. Karl demonstrates which of the following characteristics?

• centration

• animism

• irreversibility

• transductive reasoning

According to Piaget this is one of the most important milestones for infants during sensori-motor stage where infants learn that things continue to exist even when out of sight.

• Egocentrism

• Animism

• Object permanence

• Centration

Which of the following characteristics is only observed in the formal operational stage of the cognitive development theory of Jean Piaget?

• Conservation

• Reversibility

• Abstract thinking

• Decentration

The ability to come up with different hypothesis about a problem and weight data to make judgment.

• Deductive reasoning

• Logical reasoning

• Analogical reasoning

• Hypothetical reasoning

A child can understand that a ball of clay shaped into a dinosaur can again be rolled back into ball of clay. In what particular stage does this characteristic emerges?

• Sensorimotor stage

• Preoperational stage

• Formal operational stage

• Concrete operational stage

Children show the ability of putting objects in order from short to tall, tiny to big, small to large, etc. This ability is also called ___.

• Reversibility

• Seriation

• Decentering

• Classification

This term is characterized as the inability of the child to realize that some things remain unchanged despite looking different.

• Reversibility

• Lack of conservation

• Centration

• Classification