AP Psychology: Child Development

When Leroy's mother hides his favorite toy under a blanket, he acts as though it no longer exists and makes no attempt to retrieve it. Leroy is clearly near the beginning of Piaget's ________ stage.

• conventional

• preoperational

• concrete operational

• formal operational

• sensorimotor

According to Piaget, a child can represent things with words and images but cannot reason with logic during the ________ stage.

• concrete operational

• postconventional

• sensorimotor

• formal operational

• preoperational

If children cannot grasp the principle of conservation, they are unable to

• think about moral situations in abstract, hypothetical ways

• retain earlier schemas when confronted by new experiences

• see things from the point of view of another person

• deal with the discipline of toilet training

• recognize that the quantity of a substance remains the same despite changes in its shape

The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects is called

• conservation

• perceptual constancy

• object equivalence

• object permanence

• accommodation

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Five-year-old Tammy mistakenly believes that her short, wide glass contains less soda than her brother's tall, narrow glass. Actually, both glasses contain the same amount of soda. This illustrates that Tammy lacks the concept of

• conservation

• egocentrism

• accommodation

• object permanence

• assimilation

The egocentrism of preschoolers was most strongly emphasized by

• Piaget's cognitive development theory

• Kohlberg's moral development

• Harlow's attachment theory

• Lorenz's imprinting theory

• Erikson's psychological development theory

According to Piaget, egocentrism refers to

• the difficulty perceiving things from another person's point of view

• young children's exaggerated interest in themselves and their own pleasure

• the process of identity formation between infancy and young adulthood

• a sensorimotor need for self-stimulation, as evidenced in thumb sucking

• the difficulty realizing that things continue to exist even when they are not visible

According to Piaget, an egocentric child can best be described as

• selfish

• conceited

• lacking in self-esteem

• cognitively limited

• amoral

Children, even more than teens and adults, are likely to assume that something will be clear to others if it is clear to them. This curse of knowledge illustrates

• habituation

• assimilation

• egocentrism

• accommodation

• imprinting

Psychologists David Premack and Guy Woodruff described chimpanzees' seeming ability to read intentions as indicative of

• a theory of mind

• conservation

• imprinting

• crystallized intelligence

• object permanence