SLT 03 - Cognitive Development

Which of the following are examples of schemes?

• Identifying alphabets & numbers

• Knowing the main concepts in one's religion

• Extrapolating main ideas in texts

• Differentiating good and bad values

• Understanding jokes

Jasper sees his first hot air balloon.

"Look Daddy! Airplane!!!"

In the above example, Jasper is in the _____ stage of Piaget's Cognitive Processes.

• Organization

• Adaptation

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

Change "dog scheme": Dogs are smaller and don't give milk.

Add new "cow scheme": Cows are larger and give milk.

The above example illustrates the _____ stage of Piaget's Cognitive Processes.

• Organization

• Adaptation

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

In Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development, children can skip from one stage to another (eg. jumped from Sensorimotor to Concrete Operation).

• True

• False

Sevina understands her world primarily by grasping and sucking easily available objects.

Sevina is clearly in Piaget's ________ stage of Cognitive Development.

• Pre-Operational

• Concrete Operational

• Sensorimotor

• Formal Operational

Clarence plays by using a paper clip to represent Iron Man and a stick as Thanos.

Clarence is clearly in Piaget's ________ stage of Cognitive Development.

• Pre-Operational

• Concrete Operational

• Sensorimotor

• Formal Operational

Chee Yee understood the idea that the volume of water remains constant despite using a different shaped container.

Chee Yee is clearly in Piaget's ________ stage of Cognitive Development.

• Pre-Operational

• Concrete Operational

• Sensorimotor

• Formal Operational

Piaget saw ideal teachers as the ones who _____.

• support children to explore their environment

• help children who are on their journey of development

• establish opportunities for children to learn and explore with the MKO

• helps children to go beyond their current abilities, knowledge, and skills

To sum up, Piaget believes that knowledge is _____.

• constructed individually via mental frameworks

• acquired through social interaction

• gained in a non-sequential process

• lost as new knowledge is acquired

Vygotsky emphasized the importance of _____ in children's cognitive development.

• social interaction

• formal learning

• stimulation

• structured, rigid play sessions