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WorksheetsSLT 03 - Cognitive Development
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 15mins
Which of the following are examples of schemes?
Identifying alphabets & numbers
Knowing the main concepts in one's religion
Extrapolating main ideas in texts
Differentiating good and bad values
Understanding jokes
Jasper sees his first hot air balloon.
"Look Daddy! Airplane!!!"
In the above example, Jasper is in the _____ stage of Piaget's Cognitive Processes.
Organization
Adaptation
Assimilation
Accommodation
Change "dog scheme": Dogs are smaller and don't give milk.
Add new "cow scheme": Cows are larger and give milk.
The above example illustrates the _____ stage of Piaget's Cognitive Processes.
Organization
Adaptation
Assimilation
Accommodation
In Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development, children can skip from one stage to another (eg. jumped from Sensorimotor to Concrete Operation).
True
False
Sevina understands her world primarily by grasping and sucking easily available objects.
Sevina is clearly in Piaget's ________ stage of Cognitive Development.
Pre-Operational
Concrete Operational
Sensorimotor
Formal Operational
Clarence plays by using a paper clip to represent Iron Man and a stick as Thanos.
Clarence is clearly in Piaget's ________ stage of Cognitive Development.
Pre-Operational
Concrete Operational
Sensorimotor
Formal Operational
Chee Yee understood the idea that the volume of water remains constant despite using a different shaped container.
Chee Yee is clearly in Piaget's ________ stage of Cognitive Development.
Pre-Operational
Concrete Operational
Sensorimotor
Formal Operational
Piaget saw ideal teachers as the ones who _____.
support children to explore their environment
help children who are on their journey of development
establish opportunities for children to learn and explore with the MKO
helps children to go beyond their current abilities, knowledge, and skills
To sum up, Piaget believes that knowledge is _____.
constructed individually via mental frameworks
acquired through social interaction
gained in a non-sequential process
lost as new knowledge is acquired
Vygotsky emphasized the importance of _____ in children's cognitive development.
social interaction
formal learning
stimulation
structured, rigid play sessions
Which of the following are examples of a teacher's application of the idea behind the Zone of Proximal Development?
Giving students problems that is manageably beyond their current abilities
Providing scaffolding to let students discover the new knowledge
Showing different videos on a topic and having students to come up with the summary
Making a demonstration and having students replicate the demonstration
Facilitating discussion between the students on a topic to arrive at the targeted learning outcomes
In Vygotsky's Cognitive Development theory, the More Knowledgeable Other (MKO) includes _____.
videos of experts
other adults
skilled peers
friends
According to Vygotsky, which of the following is FALSE?
Children construct knowledge.
Cognitive development occurs in distinct stages.
Development cannot be separated from its social context.
Language plays a central role in mental development.
Vygotsky saw ideal teachers as the ones who _____.
support children to explore their environment
help children who are on their journey of development
establish opportunities for children to learn and explore with the MKO
helps children to go beyond their current abilities, knowledge, and skills
Vygotsky believes that learning is a _____ effort between the learner and teacher.
collaborative
productive
cooperative
instructive
To sum up, Vygotsky believes that knowledge is _____.
constructed individually via mental frameworks
acquired through social interaction
gained in a non-sequential process
lost as new knowledge is acquired
Piaget and Vygotsky's contributions to understanding cognitive development differ from the _____.
hierarchy vs modelling
argument of which came first - learning or development
roles of internal vs external stimuli
depth of formal education
