Playing the Piaget Way

Fred is smarter than Jeff; Fred is not as smart as Debbie. Who is the smartest of the three, or is it impossible to tell? If a child can give the correct answer this hypothetical question without knowing the above mentioned children but just thinking about it, that child has reached the stage of​ ​ (a)  

• Preoperational Stage
• sensorimotor stage
• Concrete Operational Stage
• Formal Operational Stage

A child does not recognize that 2 oz of liquid is the same amount regardless of the shape and size of the container. This child is in Piaget's ​ (a)   stage of cognitive development.

• Formal Operational
• sensorimotor
• Concrete Operational
• Preoperational

Upon seeing a glass lying on its side, Sammy says, “Look! The glass is tired and it is taking a nap.” ​Sammy is most likely in the (a)   stage of cognitive development.

• Formal Operational
• sensorimotor
• Concrete Operational
• Preoperational

Maria is told that a farmer has nine cows and six horses. The teacher asks, “Does the farmer have more cows or more animals?: Maria answers, “More animals." Maria is displaying characteristics from the​ (a)   stage of cognitive development.

• Formal Operational
• sensorimotor
• preoperational
• concrete operational

A child sees a plastic toy car at the store. She thinks that the toy is attractive and would be fun to play with. She wants to buy the toy car for her mother's birthday. This idea means the child is likely in the ​ (a)   stage of cognitive development.

• Formal Operational
• sensorimotor
• Concrete Operational
• Preoperational

Alice is playing in the living room with a small red ball. The ball rolls under the sofa. She stares for a  moment at the place where the ball vanished and then turns her attention to a toy truck sitting in front of her. This idea means the child is likely in the ​ (a)   stage of cognitive development.

• Formal Operational
• sensorimotor
• Concrete Operational
• preoperational

Bobby has learned how to print his name with both a crayon and a pencil. His mother gives him an ink pen and he immediately begins to print his name. He has ​ (a)   the pen to his structures for writing.

• Assimilated
• Adapted
• accommodated
• rejected

Randall's father gives him a golf club and a golf ball. Randall, who has never seen a golf club, begins to swing it like a baseball bat, then like a tennis racquet. After a while, Randall realizes that he must swing the club toward the ground in order to hit the ball. Randall's modification of the way he swings the golf club is an example of ​ (a)  

• Accommodation
• Assimilation
• Equilibrium
• adoption

The idea that certain aspects of an object can remain the same regardless of changing its appearance (8 oz of water in a cup and 8 oz of water in a flat pan) is the best example of ​ (a)  

• conservation
• transformation
• evolution
• object permanence

giving human characteristics to inanimate objects is best defined as ​​ (a)  

• Animism
• Anthropology
• Zoology
• personality transference