Piaget's Stages of Development

1. How many stages are in Piaget's cognitive development theory?

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6

2. Cindy understands her world primarily by grasping and sucking easily available objects. Cindy is clearly in Piaget's ________ stage.

• Pre-operational

• Concrete Operational

• Sensorimotor

• Formal Operational

3. All of the following are stages in Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory EXCEPT:

• Sensory Operational Stage

• Concrete Operational Stage

• Sensorimotor Stage

• Formal Operational Stage

• Pre-operational Stage

4. Piaget argued that children develop through adaption - they adjust to the world as they experience new things. True or False?

• True

• False

5. The process of taking in new information and adding it to what the child already knows is called __________

• accomodation

• equilibration

• schemata

• assimilation