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OAE Early Childhood Education Exam
2025 Graded A+
What are Piaget's stages of cognitive development? -Correct Answer ✔sensorimotor,
preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
What was Piaget's theory? -Correct Answer ✔cognitive development
Piaget's sensorimotor stage -Correct Answer ✔-birth to 2 years
-Learn through senses, motor activities, and feedback they receive through senses by
their bodies and environment
Give an example of an action that would occur in the sensorimotor stage -Correct
Answer ✔Kid sees objects, reaches for it, tries to grasp it
Kid kicks their leg, they see it move, they try to grab their leg
Kid learns to throw object from their crib that their parents will pick it back up
What are the first three substages of the sensorimotor stage? -Correct Answer ✔Birth- 1
month: comprehending the environment from inborn reflexes ex. sucking/looking
2nd substage: Primary Circular Reactions. 1-4 months: coordinate physical sensations
with schemas. ex. things to suck on/get pleasure
3rd substage: Secondary Circular Reactions @ 4-8 months the kids repeat rewarding
actions but they focus on effecting the environment rather than themselves. ex. sucks
on objects other than thumb
What are the last 3 substages of the sensorimotor stage? -Correct Answer
✔Coordination of Reactions: 8-12 months. kids explore surroundings and imitate
observed behavior. object permanence. associate objects with their properties
Tertiary Circular Reactions: 12-18months. Trial and error ex. different sounds to get
parents attention
Early Representational Thought: 18-24 months. Children represent objects and events
with symbols and understand the world not just by actions but through mental
operations
What is object permanence? (Piaget) -Correct Answer ✔the understanding that objects
continue to exist even when they cannot be observed
What is the average age when children begin to understand object permanence? -
Correct Answer ✔8-9 months
What actions shows that children understand object permanence? -Correct Answer
✔Searching for an object after it is hidden or enjoying hide and seek/peek a boo
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What is a schema? -Correct Answer ✔a concept or framework that organizes and
interprets information
a mental construct of a category or class of things
ex. file folder of the mind
What is assimilation? -Correct Answer ✔interpreting our new experiences in terms of
our existing schemas
can fit new info in an old schema
What is accommodation? -Correct Answer ✔When new info cannot go into an old
schema you can modify the schema or create a new one
What does Piaget say about assimilation and accommodation? -Correct Answer ✔It is
the process of adaptation
Give Piaget's examples of schemas -Correct Answer ✔Baby sees a man that looks like
his grandfather so he whispers hi granddaddy. He doesn't address this person as his
gpa he just noticed that they look the same because he has a gpa schema in his mind.
He assimilates or puts this man into this schema
Girl sees a dog and says moo, she says moo because she is trying to assimilate a dog
into her brown 4 legged animal schema which she has the sound moo for. If she was
told this animal say woof woof she would modify her dog schema or make a new one.
What is conservation? -Correct Answer ✔Understanding that objects keep their number
or amount even if the appearance or configuration is changed
At what age do children understand conservation? -Correct Answer ✔Age 5 according
to piaget
Piaget's Preoperational Stage -Correct Answer ✔Age 2-6
Cannot perform mental operations
Pretend play
use objects to represent other things
thinking is intuitive not logical
egocentric
Piaget's Concrete Operational Stage -Correct Answer ✔Age 6-7
Developing concrete operations
Thinking logically
Abstract thoughts are still hard
Can understand cause/effect
Can physically manipulate objects
Understands conservation
Understands reversibility
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Define reversibility -Correct Answer ✔the understanding that both physical actions and
mental operations can be reversed
Why do older kids understand the conservation of what experiment? -Correct Answer
✔Logic and reversibility
"i saw you pour the same amount of water into 2 different containers
What is animism and magical thinking? -Correct Answer ✔Animism is assigning human
traits to inanimate objects
ex. sun hates me so it burned me
Magical thinking is attributing cause and effect between a child's feeling and the world of
events around them
ex. kid said i hate you to a friend. the friend had a bad day so kid thinks it was their fault
According to an Austrian and German art scholar, what are the 6 stages of art
development? -Correct Answer ✔1. Scribble (2-4)
2. Preschematic (4-6) visual schema, no dimensions, size=importance
3. Schematic (7-9) Reflect actual proportions and colors
4. Dawning realism (9-11) Representational
5. Pseudorealistc (11-13) Ability to reason
6. Period of Decision (14+) Adolescent identity crisis
Who was Viktor Lowenfeld and did he agree with the 6 stages of art development? -
Correct Answer ✔He taught art to elementary students and blind students. He said kids
learned through physical sensations and emotional experiences
Yes he agreed with the stages
How is music influential in early childhood education? -Correct Answer ✔Helps develop
phonemic awareness
Induces memories
Influences emotional response
Kids hear music and voices and sounds before they can even speak
Auditory stimulation
Promotes language development
Develop aesthetic sense/making music
How must kids participate in pre-mathematical experiences and why? -Correct Answer
✔Kids must have physical objects to manipulate in order to learn math at a young age
because according to Piaget students do not start out thinking abstractly. They use the
environment around them to interact with and learn from. Cannot perform early mental
operations
OAE 013
OAE Early Childhood Education Exam
2025 Graded A+
What are Piaget's stages of cognitive development? -Correct Answer ✔sensorimotor,
preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
What was Piaget's theory? -Correct Answer ✔cognitive development
Piaget's sensorimotor stage -Correct Answer ✔-birth to 2 years
-Learn through senses, motor activities, and feedback they receive through senses by
their bodies and environment
Give an example of an action that would occur in the sensorimotor stage -Correct
Answer ✔Kid sees objects, reaches for it, tries to grasp it
Kid kicks their leg, they see it move, they try to grab their leg
Kid learns to throw object from their crib that their parents will pick it back up
What are the first three substages of the sensorimotor stage? -Correct Answer ✔Birth- 1
month: comprehending the environment from inborn reflexes ex. sucking/looking
2nd substage: Primary Circular Reactions. 1-4 months: coordinate physical sensations
with schemas. ex. things to suck on/get pleasure
3rd substage: Secondary Circular Reactions @ 4-8 months the kids repeat rewarding
actions but they focus on effecting the environment rather than themselves. ex. sucks
on objects other than thumb
What are the last 3 substages of the sensorimotor stage? -Correct Answer
✔Coordination of Reactions: 8-12 months. kids explore surroundings and imitate
observed behavior. object permanence. associate objects with their properties
Tertiary Circular Reactions: 12-18months. Trial and error ex. different sounds to get
parents attention
Early Representational Thought: 18-24 months. Children represent objects and events
with symbols and understand the world not just by actions but through mental
operations
What is object permanence? (Piaget) -Correct Answer ✔the understanding that objects
continue to exist even when they cannot be observed
What is the average age when children begin to understand object permanence? -
Correct Answer ✔8-9 months
What actions shows that children understand object permanence? -Correct Answer
✔Searching for an object after it is hidden or enjoying hide and seek/peek a boo
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What is a schema? -Correct Answer ✔a concept or framework that organizes and
interprets information
a mental construct of a category or class of things
ex. file folder of the mind
What is assimilation? -Correct Answer ✔interpreting our new experiences in terms of
our existing schemas
can fit new info in an old schema
What is accommodation? -Correct Answer ✔When new info cannot go into an old
schema you can modify the schema or create a new one
What does Piaget say about assimilation and accommodation? -Correct Answer ✔It is
the process of adaptation
Give Piaget's examples of schemas -Correct Answer ✔Baby sees a man that looks like
his grandfather so he whispers hi granddaddy. He doesn't address this person as his
gpa he just noticed that they look the same because he has a gpa schema in his mind.
He assimilates or puts this man into this schema
Girl sees a dog and says moo, she says moo because she is trying to assimilate a dog
into her brown 4 legged animal schema which she has the sound moo for. If she was
told this animal say woof woof she would modify her dog schema or make a new one.
What is conservation? -Correct Answer ✔Understanding that objects keep their number
or amount even if the appearance or configuration is changed
At what age do children understand conservation? -Correct Answer ✔Age 5 according
to piaget
Piaget's Preoperational Stage -Correct Answer ✔Age 2-6
Cannot perform mental operations
Pretend play
use objects to represent other things
thinking is intuitive not logical
egocentric
Piaget's Concrete Operational Stage -Correct Answer ✔Age 6-7
Developing concrete operations
Thinking logically
Abstract thoughts are still hard
Can understand cause/effect
Can physically manipulate objects
Understands conservation
Understands reversibility
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Define reversibility -Correct Answer ✔the understanding that both physical actions and
mental operations can be reversed
Why do older kids understand the conservation of what experiment? -Correct Answer
✔Logic and reversibility
"i saw you pour the same amount of water into 2 different containers
What is animism and magical thinking? -Correct Answer ✔Animism is assigning human
traits to inanimate objects
ex. sun hates me so it burned me
Magical thinking is attributing cause and effect between a child's feeling and the world of
events around them
ex. kid said i hate you to a friend. the friend had a bad day so kid thinks it was their fault
According to an Austrian and German art scholar, what are the 6 stages of art
development? -Correct Answer ✔1. Scribble (2-4)
2. Preschematic (4-6) visual schema, no dimensions, size=importance
3. Schematic (7-9) Reflect actual proportions and colors
4. Dawning realism (9-11) Representational
5. Pseudorealistc (11-13) Ability to reason
6. Period of Decision (14+) Adolescent identity crisis
Who was Viktor Lowenfeld and did he agree with the 6 stages of art development? -
Correct Answer ✔He taught art to elementary students and blind students. He said kids
learned through physical sensations and emotional experiences
Yes he agreed with the stages
How is music influential in early childhood education? -Correct Answer ✔Helps develop
phonemic awareness
Induces memories
Influences emotional response
Kids hear music and voices and sounds before they can even speak
Auditory stimulation
Promotes language development
Develop aesthetic sense/making music
How must kids participate in pre-mathematical experiences and why? -Correct Answer
✔Kids must have physical objects to manipulate in order to learn math at a young age
because according to Piaget students do not start out thinking abstractly. They use the
environment around them to interact with and learn from. Cannot perform early mental
operations
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