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Theory Of Cognitive Development

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the Definition of Cognition in this chapter?

a)

Lack of Thought or inhibited thought

b)

The ability to judge well

c)

The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.

d)

anxiety or fear that something bad or unpleasant will happen

2.

How many principles does Piaget's theory have?

a)

7

b)

4

c)

6

d)

5

3.

What is the order of the 4 Stages of Cognitive Development?

a)

Sensorimotor, Formal Operations, Preoperational, Concrete Operational

b)

Formal Operations, Concrete Operational, Sensorimotor, Preoperational

c)

Formal Operations, Concrete Operational, Preoperational, Sensorimotor

d)

Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, Formal Operations

4.

What are 2 of Piaget's principles of his theory?

a)

Children are not energetic learners

b)

Interaction with other people is crucial

c)

Children adapt to new information.

d)

The process of equilibration generates increasingly advanced thinking.

e)

Children do not organize what they learn into cohesive understandings

5.

In which stage does object permanence occur?

a)

Preoperational

b)

Sensorimotor

c)

Concrete Operational

d)

Formal Operational

6.

In which stage does egocentrism occur?

a)

Sensorimotor

b)

Formal Operational

c)

Concrete Operational

d)

Preoperational

7.

What ideas do children in the Concrete Operational Stage have a hard time understanding?

a)

Logical

b)

Abstract or hypothetical

c)

Innate

d)

Cookie Cutter

8.

Piaget suggested that adolescent idealism reflects....

a)

understand the nature of proportions and correctly use them when working on problems.

b)

becoming capable of dealing with increasingly complex conservation tasks

c)

the recognition that an object can belong both to a particular category and to one of its subcategories simultaneously.

d)

an inability to separate abstractions from practical considerations and the perspectives of others

9.

What is one key idea of Non-Piagetian Theories?

a)

Children acquire new knowledge through both intentional and unintentional learning processes.

b)

Cognitive development is not constrained by neurologically-based information-processing mechanism

c)

abilities that enable children to identify cause and effect relationships in physical phenomena.

10.

Which Neo-Piagetian Theorist proposed the theory of executive control and central conceptional structures?

a)

Robbie Case

b)

Annette Karmiloff Smith

11.

Which Neo-Piagetian theorists argued that developmental disorders should not be understood as developmental trajectories?

a)

Robbie Case

b)

Annette Karmiloff Smith

12.

How well are you taking care of you mental health this semester?

a)

I feel perfectly fine

b)

I'm doing really well so far

c)

Its a work in progress

d)

I plead the 5th