Chapter 6: Off to School - Review Quiz Game

What developmental stage of Piaget's Theory are elementary school-age children at?

• a) Concrete Operational

• b) Formal operational

• c) Pre-operational

• d) Sensorimotor

What is a characteristic of the thinking of a concrete operational child?

• a) Egocentrism

• b) Irreversibility

• c) Abstract reasoning

• d) Mental operations

Which of the following is an example of the memory strategy “organization"?

• a) Making a song about the information

• b) Sorting the names different battles by where they took place

• c) Creating a mnemonic

• d) Writing the information out over and over

Which of the following is an example of the memory strategy “elaboration”?

• a) Repeating the information over and over

• b) Classifying apples as red fruits and bananas as yellow fruits

• c) Creating a mental map of the information

• d) "Dessert" is spelt with two Ss because you want more “dessert” than “desert"

At what age range are children typically at the concrete operational stage?

• a) 2-5 years old

• b) 5-9 years old

• c) 7-11 years old

• d) 11-14 years old

Metacognition cognitive knowledge is defined as...

• a) Understanding/awareness of cognitive processes

• b) Determining the goal of a memory task

• c) Evaluation of a strategy

• d) Informal understanding of memory

According to the information processing approach, school-age children do NOT ...

• a) Need more help scaffolding

• b) Start choosing memory strategies based on the task at hand

• c) Use logical reasoning

• d) Understand the reversibility of actions

What is a limit of concrete operational thinking?

• a) Does not understand object permanence

• b) Suffers from egocentrism

• c) Cannot use abstract reasoning

• d) Is not flexible

What is a drawback of the Hierarchical View of Intelligence?

• a) It ignores research and theory on cognitive development

• b) It uses specific definitions that exclude the general population

• c) It is too broad to draw specific conclusions from

Which of the following answers describes the qualities of Fluid Intelligence?

• a) Memory Span and Associative Memory

• b) Creativity, Ideational fluency, and Naming facility

• c) Printed language, language comprehension, and vocabulary knowledge

• d) Sequential reasoning, Inductive reasoning, and quantitative reasoning