UTS Chapter 1 (Psychology)

These are the building blocks of knowledge. They are mental organizations that individuals use to understand their environments and designate action.

• Schemas/Scheme

• Adaptation

• Stages of Cognitive Development

Identify the Four Goals of Psychology.

• Explain

• Describe

• Predict

• Modify

• Exchange

It deals with the nature of knowledge itself and how human comes to acquire it.

A Swiss clinical psychologist who pioneered the "Theory of Cognitive Development."

According to Piaget, cognitive development is a conservative reorganization of mental processes resulting from biological maturation and environmental experience.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Answer explanation

Piaget stated that cognitive development is a Progressive reorganization of mental processes resulting from biological maturation and environmental experience.

Piaget claims that cognitive development is at the center of

the human organism.

• TRUE

• FALSE

What are the three basic components to Piaget’s cognitive theory?

• Schemas/Schemes

• Adaptation

• Stages of Cognitive Development

• Perception

What are the two processes that Piaget described that is used by the individual in his/her attempt to adapt?

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

• Anticipation

• Appropriation

The child learns by doing: looking, touching, sucking, the child also has a primitive understanding of cause-and-effect relationships.

• Sensorimotor

• Preoperational

• Concrete Operations

• Formal Operations

The child uses language and symbols, including letters and numbers.

• Sensorimotor

• Preoperational

• Concrete Operations

• Formal Operations