Psych Unit 6: Cognitive Development

Baby Todd learns about cats and makes a mental understanding that cats are 4 legged furry animals.

Which concept regarding how we make sense of our experiences explains a mental set/concept/framework?

• Schema

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

• Asseration

Baby Todd learns about cats and makes a mental understanding that cats are 4 legged furry animals. But when he sees a dog, he assumes that this animal is a cat.

Which concept involves comprehending new experiences in terms of our mental set?

• Schema

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

• Asseration

Baby Todd learns about cats and makes a mental understanding that cats are 4 legged furry animals. But when he sees a dog, he assumes that this animal is a cat. His mother tells him, no Todd this animal is a dog.

Which concept involves modifying/changing our current understandings and mental sets?

• Schema

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

• Asseration

In this stage, children develop the awareness that things still exist even when they cannot see it.

Which stage of Piaget's stages of Cognitive Development is this milestone of object permanence achieved?

• Sensorimotor

  Birth-2 yrs

• Preoperational

  2 yrs - 6/7 yrs

• Concrete operational

  7yrs-11yrs

• Formal operational

  12yrs-adulthood

In the sensorimotor stage, children develop the awareness that things still exist even when they cannot see it.

Which key milestone is achieved in this stage?

• Hypothetical thinking

• Object permanece

• Symbolic thinking

• Conservation

• Egocentrism

In the preoperational stage, children are able to connect the meaning of one thing to another.

Which key milestone is achieved in this stage?

• Symbolic thinking

• Object permanece

• Egocentrism

• Theory of mind

• Hypothetical thinking

Liv gives a 2.5-year-old a miniature room, with a miniature sofa. The mini sofa has a microphone under it, and the 2.5-year-old was able to find the mini microphone hidden underneath. But when brought to a real-life-sized room that looks exactly the same with a regular-sized sofa and a regular-sized microphone under it, they were not able to find a microphone under the sofa, but the 3-year-olds could.

This model room is an example of

• Symbolic thinking

• Object permanece

• Egocentrism

• Theory of mind

• Hypothetical thinking

In this stage, children are very interested in copying what they see in the world around them like playing in a toy kitchen and being a chef.

Which stage of Piaget's stages of Cognitive Development is this milestone of pretend play achieved?

• Sensorimotor

  Birth-2 yrs

• Preoperational

  2 yrs - 6/7 yrs

• Concrete operational

  7yrs-11yrs

• Formal operational

  12yrs-adulthood

In this stage, children are able to connect the meaning of one thing to another.

Which stage of Piaget's stages of Cognitive Development is this milestone of symbolic thinking achieved?

• Sensorimotor

  Birth-2 yrs

• Preoperational

  2 yrs - 6/7 yrs

• Concrete operational

  7yrs-11yrs

• Formal operational

  12yrs-adulthood

In the preoperational stage, children are very interested in copying what they see in the world around them like playing in a toy kitchen and being a chef.

Which key milestone is achieved in this stage?

• Symbolic thinking

• Pretend play

• Theory of mind

• Object permanece

• Hypothetical thinking