Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development

The inability of young children to see the world through someone else's view is termed:

• Object Permanence

• Irreversibility
• Conservation
• Egocentrism

A child's ability to understand that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight.

• Conservation

• Object Permanence

• Reversibility

• Assimilation

What is the idea that amounts stay the same even if they are presented with different shapes or sizes?

• Conservation

• Metacognition

• Object Permanence

• Egocentrism

Cindy understands her world primarily by grasping and sucking easily available objects. Cindy is clearly in Piaget's ________ stage

• preoperational
• concrete operational
• sensorimotor
• formal operational

Which stage of cognitive development includes hypothetical thinking and understanding of abstract ideas?

• Concrete Operational

• Post Operational

• Conventional Moral Reasoning

• Formal Operational

During this stage of cognitive development, children use symbolic thinking and imaginary play.

• Formal Operational

• Sensorimotor

• Concrete Operational

• PreOperational

During this stage of cognitive development, children have a greater understanding that they are not the center of the universe and others can have their own perspectives.

• Sensorimotor

• Concrete Operational

• Formal Operational

• PreOperational

What was the main focus of Piaget's research?

• How children change and grow physically

• How children interact with other individuals

• How knowledge grows

• How to maintain a daily routine

Piaget believed children are less intelligent than adults.

• True

• False

• I don't know

• What was the question?

Which best explains why young children need a rich stimulating environment in order to gain knowledge?

• Young children are motivated by color

• Young children explore and learn using their senses

• Young children require lots of stuff around them

• Young children can only focus on one object at a time.