Cognitive Development

Question 1

What are Piaget’s stages?

Answer 1

Sensorimotor. Birth to 2 years
Preoperational. 2-7 years.
Concrete Operational. 7-11 years
Formal Operational. 11-adulthood

Question 2

Describe the Sensorimotor stage

Answer 2

Coordination of sensory and motor activity; achievement of object permanence.

Question 3

What is the A not B error?

Answer 3

Children will search for a hidden object in the place it was most frequently hidden, not the place it was most recently hidden.

Question 4

How old are children who develop the first level of object permanence?

Answer 4

3 months

Question 5

Describe the Preoperational stage.

Answer 5

Use of language and symbolic representation; egocentric view of the world, make-believe play.

Question 6

What is the common mistake in the Preoperational stage?

Answer 6

Conservation. Children can’t reverse states or changes internally. Centration, irreversible and static thought.

Question 7

What is assimilation?

Answer 7

New information fits into existing schemes

Question 8

What is accommodation?

Answer 8

Changing schemes to incorporate new information or ideas

Question 9

Describe the Concrete Operational stage

Answer 9

Solution of concrete problems through logical operations; objects are organised into hierarchies, and classes and subclasses; thinking is not yet abstract

Question 10

What are concrete operational children unable to do?

Answer 10

Think in abstract.

Question 11

Describe the Formal Operational stage

Answer 11

Systematic solution of actual and hypothetical problems using abstract symbols.