Piaget's theory of child development exercise

What is spatial awareness?

• The ability to understand cause and effect in physical movements

• The ability to understand distance, maps, and directions

• The ability to organize thoughts in choosing options

What stage are children in when they become interested in the ‘what if’ type of problems, according to Piaget?

• 1. Formal operational stage

• Pre-operational stage

• Sensorimotor Stage

According to Piaget, what age marks the beginning of the preoperational stage?

• 1. Age 8

• 1. Age 1

• 1. Age 2

What kind of games do children between 2 and 7 years old like to play?

• 1. ‘Make believe’ is the game that they like to play because it help developing into socio-dramatic play

• ‘Chinese whisper’ is the game that they like to play because it can improve the ability to remember a sentence

• ‘Who am i’ is the game that they like to play because it can help creating the creativity of the students

What age do most children enter the concrete operational stage?

• 1. The age of 2 and 7

• The age of 6 and 9

• The age of 7 and 12

What is a “Three mountain experiment”?

• Experiment to test moral reasoning in children during formal operational stage

• Experiment to test ‘formal logic’ in children during pre-operational stage

• Experiment to test children’s conversational comprehension skills

Which study compared concrete operational and formal operational children’s responses to the same task. The task invited the children to imagine how humans might benefit from a third eye and they were asked to draw some innovative solutions?

• 1. Shaffer (1973)

• Chapman (1988)

• Nicholas and Lightbown (2008)

What can you infer about Piaget's “Three mountain experiment”

How did Piaget determine ‘ego-centric’ behaviour in pre-operational children?

Which concept cannot be understood by pre-operational children when observing the change of water poured between containers?