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Piaget's Theory

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

An infant who has developed object permanence...

a)

is attached to specific objects, such as a blanket.

b)

will see all objects as being the same.

c)

cries when a wanted object is taken away.

d)

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

2.

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:

a)


accommodation

b)

object permanence

c)

egocentricism

d)

equilibrium

3.

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

a)

Assimilation

b)

Accommodation

c)

Disequilibrium

d)

Equilibration

4.

In which stage do children begin to develop object permanence?

a)

Formal operational stage

b)

Preoperational stage

c)

Sensorimotor stage

d)

Concrete operational stage

5.

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

a)

preoperational stage

b)

sensorimotor stage

c)

formal operational stage

d)

concrete operational stage

6.

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

a)

Concrete operational stage

b)

Abstract operational stage

c)

Concrete thinking stage

d)

Logical reasoning stage

7.

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.

a)

Irreversibility

b)

Centration

c)

Conservation

d)

Object Permanence 

8.

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

a)

sensorimotor

b)

preoperational

c)

formal operational

d)

concrete operational

9.

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

a)

comprehension

b)

perception

c)

analysis

d)

interpretation

10.

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

a)

Accommodation

b)

Equilibration

c)

Cognition

d)

Assimilation

11.

Knowing the world through their movements and sensations, learning the world through actions, learning things continue to exist and thinking actions cause things to happen in the world would be examples of?

a)

Pre operational

b)

Sensorimotor

c)

Concrete operational

d)

Formal oerations

12.

What was Piaget's theory in children moving through mental development?

a)

Each person is different and goes through stages at different times

b)

There is no stages and mental development changes throughout life

c)

His theory does not explain mental development, but cognitive and social development

d)

Different stages that each child must go through and each stage is competed at a certain point in time

13.

An example of Secondary Circular reactions is ....

a)

if you brush your finger against a baby’s face, they will instinctively start sucking. 

b)

Babies wiggling their fingers, kicking their legs, or sucking their thumbs.

c)

... a baby continuously shaking a rattle just to hear the sound of the rattle. 

d)

a child reaching out and grabbing their rattle even if there is another object standing in the way of it.