Piaget Developmental Psych

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

According to Piaget, children come to understand that the volume of a substance remains constant despite changes in its shape during the ________ stage.

• sensorimotor
• preoperational
• concrete operational
• formal operational

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.

Four-year-old Jennifer mistakenly believes that her mother would like to receive a toy doll as a Christmas present. This best illustrates Piaget's concept of:

• accommodation
• attachment
• object permanence
• egocentricism

The cognitive ability to be able to recognize that quantities remain the same when two glasses of water are sitting beside each other, and one is poured into a taller glass.

• Irreversibility
• Centration
• Conservation
• Object Permanence 

The inability of young children to see the world through someone else's view is termed:

• Centration
• Irreversibility
• Conservation
• Egocentrism

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

• preoperational
• concrete operational
• sensorimotor
• formal operational

Peek-a-boo works on children in what stage?

• Sensorimotor
• Preoperational
• Concrete Operational
• Formal Operational

The ability to use deductive logic, think abstractly and systematically solve problems emerges during the:

• Concrete Operational Stage
• Sensorimotor Stage
• Formal Operational Stage 
• Preoperational State 

Bobby believes that the sky is blue because someone painted it that color.  This is an example of . . .

• artificialism
• animism
• egocentrism
• conservation