Psychology - Cognitive Development (Piaget)

Prenatal Development... Put the following in the correct order

• Embryo

• Fetus

• Zygote

Match the following

• Object Permanence

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• Conservation

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• Rooting Reflex

• 
• Tertogens

• 

In the picture, the kid's responses are very ​ (a)   revealing that he has not developed what is called ​ (b)   when you are able to put yourself in someone else's shoes. Piaget would say the boy is in the ​ (c)   stage

• egocentric
• theory of the mind
• Preoperational
• Sensorimotor
• Crystallized
• Concrete

Reorder the following Piagetian Stages

• Formal

• Concrete

• Sensorimotor

• Preoperational

A schema or perceptual set is the sum total information that you have learned. When you work new information in you are practicing ____

• Accommodation

• Assimilation

A schema is the sum total amount of information you have collected in the course of your life. When new information changes your mind ___ has occurred

• assimilation

• accommodation

Piaget developed a theory for the role of

• Cognitive development

• Brain development

• Child development

• Biological development

Accommodation is the process of

• adding info into an existing schema

• forgetting information we do not need

• creating a new schema for new types of information

• finding the right place to store our ideas

A schema is described as

• a collection of ideas

• a visual image of the world around us

• a knowledge structure

• a set of detailed drawings

According to Piaget's theory children who have moved beyond the object permanence stage but demonstrate Egocentricity and a lack of conservation are at what stage

• Formal operational

• Concrete operational

• Pre-operational

• Sensorimotor