Piaget's Theory

An infant who has developed object permanence...

• is attached to specific objects, such as a blanket.

• will see all objects as being the same.

• cries when a wanted object is taken away.

• knows that an object, such as a rattle, exists even if it is not in view.

Four-year-old Juanita mistakenly believes that her mother would like to receive a toy doll as a Christmas present. This best illustrates Piaget's concept of:

• 
  accommodation

• object permanence

• egocentricism

• equilibrium

According to Piaget, what is the term for the process of adjusting existing schemas or creating new ones to understand the environment?

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

• Disequilibrium

• Equilibration

In which stage do children begin to develop object permanence?

• Formal operational stage

• Preoperational stage

• Sensorimotor stage

• Concrete operational stage

What is the term for the stage where children start to use language and represent objects by images and words?

• preoperational stage

• sensorimotor stage

• formal operational stage

• concrete operational stage

What is the term for the stage where children can think logically about concrete events but have difficulty understanding abstract concepts?

• Concrete operational stage

• Abstract operational stage

• Concrete thinking stage

• Logical reasoning stage

The cognitive ability to be able to recognize that quantities remain the same when two glasses of water are sitting beside each other, and one is poured into a taller glass.

• Irreversibility

• Centration

• Conservation

• Object Permanence 

According to Piaget, children come to understand that the volume of a substance remains constant despite changes in its shape during the ________ stage.

• sensorimotor

• preoperational

• formal operational

• concrete operational

What is the term for the process of organizing and making sense of information received from the environment?

• comprehension

• perception

• analysis

• interpretation

According to Piaget, what is the term for the process of applying existing mental patterns to new information?

• Accommodation

• Equilibration

• Cognition

• Assimilation