Cognitive Development Part 1 Quiz

1. Which psychologist was most influential in shaping our understanding of cognitive development?

• Erik Erickson

• Jean Piaget

• Harry Harlow

• Abraham Maslow

2. A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information is called a(n)

• Schema

• Centration

• Assimilation

• Conservation

3. Adjusting current schemas to make sense of new information is called

• Schemas

• Centration

• Correlation

• Accomodation

4. Olivia understands her world primarily by grasping and sucking easily available objects. Olivia is clearly in Piagets ________ stage.

• Centration

• Concret

• Sensorimotor

• Preoperational

A child's ability to understand that objects still exist after they are no longer in sight is called?

• Egocentric

• Object Permanence

• Conservation

• Assimilation

Inability on the part of a child in the preoperational stage of development to see any point of view other than their own is called?

• Centration

• Conservation

• Assimilation

• Egocentrism

The belief that objects that are inanimate (not living) have feelings, thoughts, and have the mental characteristics and qualities of living things (“are just like me”) is called?

• Centration

• Egocentrism

• Creationism

• Animism

The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects is called?

• Conservation

• Assimilation

• Egocentrism

• Centration