Child Development Quiz

Theory of Cognitive Development based on a stage oriented process of cognition

• Kohlberg's Theory

• Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development

• Darwin's Theory

• Erikson's Theory

Child cries when parent is no longer present.

• Egocentric

• Cognitive Development

• Separation Anxiety

• Conservation

By one year of age, a child realizes that the objects still exist although the object is no longer seen

• assimilation

• Animism

• object permanence

• schema

All of the following are stages of Cognitive Development –Sensorimotor birth to age 2 EXCEPT

• Child cries when parent is no longer present

• Child acts on the environment by knocking down blocks, making sounds, finding toes. 

• Child sees an object and reaches for it

• Thinking about the future

Child cannot take another point of view.

• Conservation

• Egocentric

• Animism

• Transductive Logic

Child thinks all objects have life.

• Object Permanence

• Conservation

• Animism

• Deductive logic

Children in the Preoperational stage ages 2 to 6 can do the following.

• Child derives specific facts from a generalization

• Use symbols and language

• Child Hypothesizes

• Child thinks abstractly

Child begins to understand that objects can change shape without other changes in their characteristics

• Accommodation

• Law of Conservation

• Hypothesizes

• Schema

At what ages should a child be able to classifies objects into larger classes of objects. 

• 12 to life

• 6-12

• Birth-2

• 2-6

All of the following are examples of formal development from ages 12 to life EXCEPT.

• Child sees an object and reaches for it.

• Child thinks abstractly. 

• Child hypothesizes. 

• Child thinks about the future