DEP EXAM #2 Questions with 100%
Correct Answers
Piaget's Basic Premise - Answer-Children enter chaotic world at birth, and they are faced w/ the task of
organizing the world w/ their minds.
Piaget's Basic Premise on children's reality - Answer-They construct their own
Assimilation - Answer-Incorporating new info into already existing cognitive structures
ex: caracals are a type of big (wild) cat
Accommodation - Answer-Changing a mental structure to incorporate new information
ex: Caracals are not a type of house cat
Equilibration in child developing schemes - Answer-Inner tendency of an organism to keep its cognitive
schemes in balance
-When we do not know what to do with new info, then we are in disequilibrium, therefore
ACCOMMODATION is the solution b/c we change our scheme to fit new information.
,***If assimilation is not possible, accommodation can encourage development***
assimilation and accommodation are - Answer-both active rather than passive
Piagets stages of cognitive development (4) - Answer--Sensorimotor stage, pre operational, concrete
operational, and formal
Sensorimotor stage - Answer-0-2 years; experience cognition through senses & motor action
-Infants enter world w/ reflexes used to learn about the world
-"I see it & touch it, therefore it is!"
Preoperational stage - Answer-2-7; cognition is symbolic & perceptual (not yet logical)
-symbolic: mentally represent concepts & engage with them
-Egocentrism happens here
-Achievement of conservation allows children to recognize the appearance of things doesn't change its
properties.
Define egocentrism - Answer-occurs during pre operational stage
-interpret events & objects from one's own perspective (trouble understanding others' perspective)
, Concrete operational - Answer-7-11; cognition is LOGICAL; no longer PERCEPTUAL
-ability to multiple classification: classify objects simultaneously on 2 or more dimensions
Multiple Classification - Answer-(Occurs in Concrete operational stage)
-Classify objects simultaneously on 2 or more dimensions
-Ex: younger kids have trouble understanding one person is both father and son.
Formal Operational Stage - Answer-11-16; upper level of intelligence; thinking is abstract
-ex: understand justice and infinity
-hypothetico-deductive & inductive reasoning happens here
Hypothetico-deductive reasoning - Answer--occurs in formal operational stage
-thinking = generating and testing hypothesis beyond basic deductive reasoning
Provide an example of Hypothetico-Deductive Reasoning. - Answer-(formal operational stage)
-kid burns cookies in over. He is unsure whether there was an issue with the ingredients, the oven
temperature was too high, or he kept them in too long. Therefore, he tests out possible solutions one at
a time rather than all at once..
Inductive Reasoning - Answer-thinking that goes from specific observations to broad generalizations
Provide an example of inductive reasoning - Answer-(formal)
Correct Answers
Piaget's Basic Premise - Answer-Children enter chaotic world at birth, and they are faced w/ the task of
organizing the world w/ their minds.
Piaget's Basic Premise on children's reality - Answer-They construct their own
Assimilation - Answer-Incorporating new info into already existing cognitive structures
ex: caracals are a type of big (wild) cat
Accommodation - Answer-Changing a mental structure to incorporate new information
ex: Caracals are not a type of house cat
Equilibration in child developing schemes - Answer-Inner tendency of an organism to keep its cognitive
schemes in balance
-When we do not know what to do with new info, then we are in disequilibrium, therefore
ACCOMMODATION is the solution b/c we change our scheme to fit new information.
,***If assimilation is not possible, accommodation can encourage development***
assimilation and accommodation are - Answer-both active rather than passive
Piagets stages of cognitive development (4) - Answer--Sensorimotor stage, pre operational, concrete
operational, and formal
Sensorimotor stage - Answer-0-2 years; experience cognition through senses & motor action
-Infants enter world w/ reflexes used to learn about the world
-"I see it & touch it, therefore it is!"
Preoperational stage - Answer-2-7; cognition is symbolic & perceptual (not yet logical)
-symbolic: mentally represent concepts & engage with them
-Egocentrism happens here
-Achievement of conservation allows children to recognize the appearance of things doesn't change its
properties.
Define egocentrism - Answer-occurs during pre operational stage
-interpret events & objects from one's own perspective (trouble understanding others' perspective)
, Concrete operational - Answer-7-11; cognition is LOGICAL; no longer PERCEPTUAL
-ability to multiple classification: classify objects simultaneously on 2 or more dimensions
Multiple Classification - Answer-(Occurs in Concrete operational stage)
-Classify objects simultaneously on 2 or more dimensions
-Ex: younger kids have trouble understanding one person is both father and son.
Formal Operational Stage - Answer-11-16; upper level of intelligence; thinking is abstract
-ex: understand justice and infinity
-hypothetico-deductive & inductive reasoning happens here
Hypothetico-deductive reasoning - Answer--occurs in formal operational stage
-thinking = generating and testing hypothesis beyond basic deductive reasoning
Provide an example of Hypothetico-Deductive Reasoning. - Answer-(formal operational stage)
-kid burns cookies in over. He is unsure whether there was an issue with the ingredients, the oven
temperature was too high, or he kept them in too long. Therefore, he tests out possible solutions one at
a time rather than all at once..
Inductive Reasoning - Answer-thinking that goes from specific observations to broad generalizations
Provide an example of inductive reasoning - Answer-(formal)
