Cognitive Development 6-12

During Piaget's ________ stage, children begin using mental operations to solve problems.

• formal operational

• concrete operational

• sensorimotor

• preoperational

Which characteristic of the concrete operational child's thinking helps him or her to solve Piaget's conservation problem?

• reversibility

• hypothetical thinking

• egocentrism

• animism

According to Piaget, the concrete operational child

• cannot reverse mental operations.

• cannot solve conservation tasks.

• thinks in an abstract and hypothetical manner.

• knows that appearances can be deceiving.

Which of the following intelligences is included both in Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences and in psychometric theories of intelligence?

• musical

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  bodily-kinesthetic

• interpersonal

• spatial

What is intelligent behaviour for Kaylee, who lives in the midwestern United States, is not necessarily what would be intelligent behaviour for Salina, who lives in Kenya. This cultural difference in what would be considered intelligent behaviour is addressed by

• Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence.

• psychometric theories of intelligence.

• Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences.

• Spearman's general factor of intelligence.