Module 2: Intro to Cognitive
Development questions with correct
answers
Organized patterns of actions and thoughts, such as kicking a football or realizing that there are many
different types of footballs, or connecting memories of one family vacation with other family vacations,
are define by Piaget as - correct answer ✔✔Schema
Marge is teaching Bart and Lisa at home through remote learning. She has a tall skinny glass and a short
wide glass. Marge has Bart fill a measuring cup of chocolate milk. Lisa pours it into the tall glass. Lisa fills
the same measuring cup with chocolate milk and Marge has Bart pour it into the short glass. Marge then
asks the kids which glass they want. Both say the tall glass because there is more chocolate milk in it. In
which stage of Piaget's cognitive development are Lisa and Bart? - correct answer ✔✔Preoperational
Mr. Mustard's middle school science class is working on science fair projects. Billy has elected to do his
project on how many types of germs may be found on surfaces in the school cafeteria. He has already
created a hypothesis about the types of germs he is likely to find. Which stage of Piaget's cognitive
development does this represent? - correct answer ✔✔Formal Operational
Mrs. Peacock teachers 5th grade. They are learning how to read maps and to use a compass rose. Her
class is working on finding the 13 colonies on a map. In which stage of Piaget's cognitive development
theory are they working? - correct answer ✔✔Concrete Operational
Which teaching methodology is consistent with Vygotsky's theory of cognitive development? - correct
answer ✔✔Encourage students to share different perspectives on a topic to help each other learn.
Which of the following best describes Piaget's concept of a scheme? - correct answer ✔✔An organized
pattern of behavior or thought
You walk into a classroom and observe the teacher moving children into heterogeneous groups of 4 or 5
to learn about different types of clouds. Whose theory is the teacher following? - correct answer
✔✔Vygotsky
Development questions with correct
answers
Organized patterns of actions and thoughts, such as kicking a football or realizing that there are many
different types of footballs, or connecting memories of one family vacation with other family vacations,
are define by Piaget as - correct answer ✔✔Schema
Marge is teaching Bart and Lisa at home through remote learning. She has a tall skinny glass and a short
wide glass. Marge has Bart fill a measuring cup of chocolate milk. Lisa pours it into the tall glass. Lisa fills
the same measuring cup with chocolate milk and Marge has Bart pour it into the short glass. Marge then
asks the kids which glass they want. Both say the tall glass because there is more chocolate milk in it. In
which stage of Piaget's cognitive development are Lisa and Bart? - correct answer ✔✔Preoperational
Mr. Mustard's middle school science class is working on science fair projects. Billy has elected to do his
project on how many types of germs may be found on surfaces in the school cafeteria. He has already
created a hypothesis about the types of germs he is likely to find. Which stage of Piaget's cognitive
development does this represent? - correct answer ✔✔Formal Operational
Mrs. Peacock teachers 5th grade. They are learning how to read maps and to use a compass rose. Her
class is working on finding the 13 colonies on a map. In which stage of Piaget's cognitive development
theory are they working? - correct answer ✔✔Concrete Operational
Which teaching methodology is consistent with Vygotsky's theory of cognitive development? - correct
answer ✔✔Encourage students to share different perspectives on a topic to help each other learn.
Which of the following best describes Piaget's concept of a scheme? - correct answer ✔✔An organized
pattern of behavior or thought
You walk into a classroom and observe the teacher moving children into heterogeneous groups of 4 or 5
to learn about different types of clouds. Whose theory is the teacher following? - correct answer
✔✔Vygotsky
