WEEK 3: Early cognitive development and the construction of reality: Part 1

Question 1

What is the relating of new information to pre-existing structures of understanding?

a. Accommodation
b. Operational
c. Assimilation
d. The sensorimotor

Answer 1

c. Assimilation

Question 2

What is the development of old structures into new ones at the behest of new external information or problems?

a. Accommodation
b. Operational
c. Assimilation
d. The sensorimotor

Answer 2

a. Accommodation

Question 3

What are Piaget’s four stages of cognitive development? ( in order)

a. Preoperational, sensorimotor, formal operational period, concrete
b. formal operational period, sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete
c. Concrete, formal operational period, sensorimotor, preoperational
d. Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete, formal operational period

Answer 3

d. Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete, formal operational period

Question 4

What age is the sensorimotor stage?

a. 2-7 years old
b. 7-11 years old
c. 0-2 years old
d. 11 years old through adulthood

Answer 4

c. 0-2 years old

Question 5

What age is the preoperational stage?

a. 2-7 years old
b. 7-11 years old
c. 0-2 years old
d. 11 years old through adulthood

Answer 5

a. 2-7 years old

Question 6

What age is the concrete operational stage?

a. 2-7 years old
b. 7-11 years old
c. 0-2 years old
d. 11 years old through adulthood

Answer 6

b. 7-11 years old

Question 7

What age is the formal operational period?

a. 2-7 years old
b. 7-11 years old
c. 0-2 years old
d. 11 years old through adulthood

Answer 7

d. 11 years old through adulthood

Question 8

1. According to Piaget’s theory the preoperational stage for children’s development is primarily between:

a. 4-8 years of age
b. 2.5 – 6 years of age
c. 18 months – 4 years of age
d. 3.5-7 years of age

Answer 8

b - 2.5 – 6 years of age

Question 9

Egocentrism is defined as a period when children learn to consider a situation from multiple viewpoints:

True
False

Answer 9

False

Question 10

Reversibility is defined as when children learn:

a .To walk backwards

b. To speak in sentences
c. That actions can be reversed
d. To pivot on the spot and change directions spontaneously

Answer 10

c. That actions can be reversed

Question 11

Piaget’s “three mountain’s task” is linked to the key concept of:

a. Egocentrism
b. Reversibility
c. Cortisol
d. Preoperational stage

Answer 11

a. Egocentrism

Question 12

One of the key criticisms of Piaget’s research made by Donaldson (1978) and Siegal (1997) was that:

a. Preschoolers shouldn’t do research
b. Preschoolers didn’t know what mountains were
c. The tasks would make little sense to pre-schoolers given their relative stage of language development
d. Parents shouldn’t allow their children to participate in research if they aren’t financially compensated

Answer 12

c. The tasks would make little sense to pre-schoolers given their relative stage of language development