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Piaget's 4 stages of cognitive development Ans: sensorimotor stage Ans: birth-2 yrs, understands the world through senses and action preoperational stage Ans: 2-7 years, understands the world through language and mental images concrete operational stage Ans: 7-12 years, understands the world through logical thinking and categories formal operational stage Page | 2 All rights reserved © 2025/ 2026 | Ans: 12 years +, understands the world through hypothetical thinking and scientific reasoning sensorimotor substages Ans: preoperational substages Ans: egocentrism, contration, conservation and intuitive thought egocentrism

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PSYCH 2450 EXAM 2 Questions and
Correct Answers/ Latest Update / Already
Graded
Piaget's 4 stages of cognitive development

Ans:


sensorimotor stage

Ans: birth-2 yrs, understands the world through senses and
action


preoperational stage

Ans: 2-7 years, understands the world through language and
mental images


concrete operational stage

Ans: 7-12 years, understands the world through logical thinking
and categories


formal operational stage




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Ans: 12 years +, understands the world through hypothetical
thinking and scientific reasoning


sensorimotor substages

Ans:


preoperational substages

Ans: egocentrism, contration, conservation and intuitive
thought


egocentrism in kids vs adolescence

Ans: -kids don't take into account the view points of others


- adolescence feel that they have an imaginary audience


personal fables and imaginary audiences...

Ans: apply to cognition because, these concepts enable
adolescence to construct imaginary situations and think
abstractly


changes in post formal thought include

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Ans: adults wrestle with thoughts of the mystery of existence,
lifes chaos, and living in the here-and-now. They are neither
changing toward some endpoint, nor running from the past.


contributions and criticisms of Piaget's theory

Ans: -post formal thought is viewed as accurate


-underestimates childrens abilities


-neglects the fact that there can be change beyond the end of
adolescence


schemes

Ans: an organized pattern of sensorimotor functioning


assimilation

Ans: the process in which people understand the experience in
terms of their current stage of cognitive development and way
of thinking


accommodation



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