Piaget Cognitive Stages of Development

According to Piaget, during the formal operational stage people begin to:

• reason abstractly
• adhere to social norms
• distinguish between good and bad behaviors
• become aware of the positive and negative consequences of their own behaviors

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
• concrete operational
• formal operational

An infant who has developed object permanence...

• is attached to specific objects, such as a blanket.
• will see all objects as being the same.
• knows that an object, such as a rattle, exists even if it is not in view.
• cries when a wanted object is taken away.

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

• accommodation
• attachment
• object permanence
• egocentricism

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 

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

• Centration
• Irreversibility
• Conservation
• Egocentrism

In which of the following stages will children learn the concept of conservation?

• preoperational
• concrete operational
• sensorimotor
• formal operational

Peek-a-boo works on children in what stage?

• Sensorimotor
• Preoperational
• Concrete Operational
• Formal Operational

The ability to use deductive logic, think abstractly and systematically solve problems emerges during the:

• Concrete Operational Stage
• Sensorimotor Stage
• Formal Operational Stage 
• Preoperational State 

Jane's mother has two crackers, both of equal size. She breaks one of the crackers up into four pieces. Jane says she wants the one with the most and immediately chooses the four pieces, even though the two amounts are equal. Jane's choice illustrates Piaget's concept of:

• Accommodation
• Egocentrism
• False belief
• Conservation