Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development Flashcards
A four-year old insists small people must live in the TV because they are right there behind the glass. Identify the stage and the phenomenon being displayed by the child.
Pre-operational stage
Egocentrism
A child adept at roller skating goes ice skating for the first time. She keeps trying to stand and move just as on roller skates but falls again and again. According to Piaget, what is necessary of a new skill.
She is displaying assimilation in trying to skate like she rollerblades.
To learn this new skill, she needs to use accomodation.
A five-year old boy threatened to tell his parents when given only one of the three candy bars he and his ten-year-old brother were told to share. The older child then broke his brother’s bar in half and gave him two pieces. This satisfied both children because they each had two pieces. Identify the cognitive stages of these children and the disadvantage that allows the younger child to be cheated.
Theh younger child is in the preoperational stage - he was able to be cheated because he lacks conservation (the inability to understand superficial transformation).
The older child was most likely in the Concrete operations stage (simply by age 7-11).
Previously, whenever Jphnny banged with a spoon, his mother would put it in a drawer and Johnnny would quickly move on to something else. Now that he is eight months old, this isn’t working. The child continues to demand the spoon even though he can’t see it. Identify the cognitive stage of this child and the change that has taken place.
The child is in the sensorimotor stage.
He displayed lack of object permanence.
