IB Psychology Development Quiz Cognitive Development

Swiss psychologist who made major contributions in the stages of children’s cognitive development.

• BF Skinner

• Jean Piaget

• Albert Bandura

• Lev Vygotsky

________ is when a child reacts to a new object or idea in a way that is consistent with the already existing mental representations.

Which of the following is NOT one of Piaget’s stages of cognitive development?

• Pre-intellectual stage

• Sensorimotor stage

• Concrete operational stage

• Pre-operational stage

This stage of cognitive development is characterized by playing and pretending in children.

• Sensorimotor stage

• Concrete operational stage

• Pre-operational stage

• Formal operational stage

A child is shown two cups of juice in the same sized glass with the same amount of juice in each glass. Her mother then pores one glass into a taller thinner glass. The child now thinks that there is more juice in the taller thinner glass. This is an example of what?

• Centration

• Conservation

• Object permanence

• Irreversibility

Piaget believed that the primary driving force behind a child’s development was...

• Language acquisition

• Economic status

• Cultural exposure

• Biological maturation

An individual is taking an exam for a college placement aptitude test, what form of cognitive function is the individual exhibiting?

• Sensory cognitive functions

• Higher cognitive functions

• Lower cognitive functions

• Repressed cognitive functions

Which age group would you most likely see egocentric speech in a child?

• 0-3 years

• 3-7 years

• 7-12 years

• 13 -16 years

True or False: Many of Piaget’s experiments and observations were done with his own three children?

• True

• False

The mountain task, done by Piaget and Inhelder, was done in order to test a child’s object permanence?

• True

• False