Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory Review

Front

A child is shown two identical glasses with the same amount of water. Water from one glass is poured into a taller, thinner glass. The child believes the taller glass now has more water. This demonstrates a lack of:

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Conservation

Front

In which of Piaget's stages of cognitive development does a child begin to think abstractly and use hypothetical-deductive reasoning?

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Formal Operational

Front

A baby repeatedly shakes a rattle to hear the sound it makes. This behavior is a characteristic of which stage?

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Sensorimotor

Front

The process by which an existing schema is modified to incorporate new information is called:

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Accommodation

Front

According to Piaget, a child who cannot see an object from another person's perspective is demonstrating:

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Egocentrism

Front

Which stage is typically characterized by symbolic thought, language development, and the beginning of pretend play?

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Preoperational

Front

The understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen is known as:

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Object permanence

Front

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Concrete Operational stage? Reversibility, Classification, Logical thinking about concrete events, Abstract thought

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Abstract thought

Front

At which stage does a child start to use mental operations and logical thought, but only on physical, concrete objects and events?

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Concrete Operational

Front

The process of taking in new information and fitting it into an existing schema is called:

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Assimilation