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Piaget's Practice

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In Piaget's theory, the stage in which infants are only aware of what is immediately in front of them (from birth to about 2 years of age).

a)

Formal Operational Stage

b)

Preoperational Stage

c)

Sensorimotor Stage

d)

Concrete Operational Stage

2.

Piaget's fourth and final stage of cognitive development. The person can think logically, hypothetically, and in the abstract

a)

Preconventional Moral Reasoning

b)

Postconventional Moral Reasoning

c)

Conventional Moral Reasoning

d)

Formal Operational Stage

3.
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 
4.

A child can explain that 3x2 represents three sets of two.

a)

Sensorimotor

b)

Preoperational

c)

Concrete Operational

d)

Formal Operational

5.
According to Piaget, during the formal operational stage people begin to:
a)
reason abstractly
b)
adhere to social norms
c)
distinguish between good and bad behaviors
d)
become aware of the positive and negative consequences of their own behaviors
6.
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)
concrete operational
d)
formal operational
7.
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)
knows that an object, such as a rattle, exists even if it is not in view.
d)
cries when a wanted object is taken away.
8.
The inability of young children to see the world through someone else's view is termed:
a)
Centration
b)
Irreversibility
c)
Conservation
d)
Egocentrism
9.
Peek-a-boo works on children in what stage?
a)
Sensorimotor
b)
Preoperational
c)
Concrete Operational
d)
Formal Operational
10.
The ability to use deductive logic, think abstractly and systematically solve problems emerges during the:
a)
Concrete Operational Stage
b)
Sensorimotor Stage
c)
Formal Operational Stage 
d)
Preoperational State 
11.
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:
a)
Accommodation
b)
Egocentrism
c)
False belief
d)
Conservation
12.
According to your age and Piaget's theory, what stage are you at?
a)
Concrete Operational
b)
Formal Operational
c)
Preoperational
d)
Sensorimotor
13.

More logical and methodical manipulation of symbols. Less egocentric, and more aware of the outside world and events.

a)

Sensorimotor

b)

Preoperational

c)

Concrete operational

d)

Formal operational

14.

A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.

a)

schema

b)

theory of mind

c)

habituation

d)

gender

15.

the process of incorporating new information into one's existing knowledge of the world

a)

Accomodation

b)

Assimilation

c)

Object Permanence

d)

Reversibility