AP Psych Unit 5 FA Dummy 2, 2025-26

A 5-year-old tells a story using imaginative language but struggles to understand that others have different perspectives. This child is in which developmental stage?

• Sensorimotor

• Preoperational

• Concrete Operational

• Postconventional

A child identifies that a banana can be a telephone in pretend play, but cannot yet grasp logical reasoning. Which stage of development is the child in?

• Preoperational Stage

• Sensorimotor Stage

• Concrete Operational Stage

• Formal Operational Stage

A teacher notices her students can talk fluently and imagine scenarios but can’t yet perform basic mental math. What developmental stage are they likely in?

• Concrete Operational

• Preoperational

• Sensorimotor

• Postformal

What is the term for understanding that properties like mass or number remain the same despite changes in shape or form?

• Conservation

• Object Permanence

• Reversibility

• Classification

The principle that volume or quantity stays consistent even if the container changes is known as:

• Logical Thinking

• Conservation

• Spatial Awareness

• Object Constancy

A child watches water poured from a tall glass into a short wide one and insists the amount has changed. The child has not yet mastered:

• Reversibility

• Classification

• Conservation

• Object Permanence

In a study, children are asked if a ball of clay reshaped into a pancake still has the same amount. Those who answer “yes” demonstrate:

• Egocentrism

• Conservation

• Symbolic Play

• Centration

A developmental psychologist tests whether children understand that the number of blocks remains constant after being rearranged. This task measures:

• Object Permanence

• Mental Flexibility

• Conservation

• Abstract Reasoning

In Piaget's theory, what term describes a young child's difficulty in seeing things from another person's point of view?

• Animism

• Egocentrism

• Centration

• Conservation

The inability of a preoperational child to consider another person’s viewpoint is known as:

• Reversibility

• Egocentrism

• Theory of Mind

• Object Permanence