Exam 2 - Developmental Psychology
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1. Lauren has begun to use a sippy cup after sucking out of a bottle for the first
year of her life. She becomes frustrated because she tries to suck out of the
spout of the cup, but nothing comes out. Her father shows her that she needs
to tip the cup to get the liquid to come out. Her initial drinking scheme has come
in conflict. What Piagetian concepts fit with Lauren's cognitive experience?: -
Lauren is in a state of disequilibrium.
- Lauren will organize her knowledge of drinking after experiencing different types of cups.
- Lauren will need to accommodate her drinking scheme to fit the new information.
2. What is the second stage of Piaget's cognitive theory of development?: -
Preoperational Stage
3. According to Piaget's preoperational stage, a child does not yet perform
_______, which are defined as reversible mental actions.: - Operations
4. According to _______ theory, failing the conservation-of-liquid task demon-
strates centration and an inability to mentally reverse actions; indicates that
the child is at the preoperational stage.: - Piaget's
5. If a preoperational child cannot conserve length, the child also will not be able
to conserve number.: - False: children often vary in their performance on different conservation tasks.
6. The ______ operational stage lasts from approximately 7 to 11 years of age. In
this stage, reasoning is logical as long as it is applied to examples.: - Concrete
7. During ______ operational thought stage, an adolescent aged between 11 and
15 years of age will be able to reason logically beyond concrete experiences.: -
Formal
8. The adjustment of the new information into adolescent's world is a descrip-
tion of _______.: - Accommodation
9. Adolescent egocentrism includes which of the following?: - Imaginary Audience
- Personal Fable
- Risk Taking
10. _______ audience emerges from adolescents' belief that others are as inter-
ested in them as they themselves are and that everyone is watching them.: -
Imaginary
11. According to Piaget, cognitive conflict is also known as ______.: - Disequilibrium
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12. Which of the following statements best illustrate the symbolic function sub-
stage?: - Children dressing up to pretend they are knights and wizards.
- Children scribbling a picture to represent their family.
- Children continuing to see the world only from their perspective.
13. Marta feels sorry for the white crayon because no one every uses it and she
thinks it must be sad. This is an example of ________.: - Animism
14. Which of these drawings best describes the cognitive level of a
three-year-old's network?: - A picture of blue sun shining over the pink ocean.
15. The preoperational thought substage that is called ________ though is consid-
ered the period when children seek answers to all sorts of questions.: - Intuitive
16. Around the age five, children will do which of the following?: - Want to know why
things are the way they are.
- Develop an interest in the ability to use reason.
17. The limitation of preoperational thought of focusing attention on one char-
acteristic while excluding all other characteristics is called __________.: - Centration
18. Concrete operations do not allow child to consider multiple characteristics
of an object.: - False
19. The ability to order stimuli along a quantitative dimension is called
__________.: - Seriation
20. A child understands that in order to arrange sticks from shortest to longest,
each stick must be longer than the one that precedes it and shorter than the
one that follows it. This means the child is using __________.: - Seriation
21. Transitivity: - The recognition that a relationship such as the following exists: if A is greater than B and B is
greater than C than A must be greater than C.
22. Trevor understands that if Paul is older than Jake, and Jake is older than
Melissa, then Paul is older than Melissa. Trevor has demonstrated the ability
of __________.: - Transitivity
23. According to Piaget, the fourth and the final stage of cognitive development
is the _______ operational stage.: - Formal
24. ________ operational thoughts is more abstract than ______ operational
thought.: - Formal; Concrete
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1. Lauren has begun to use a sippy cup after sucking out of a bottle for the first
year of her life. She becomes frustrated because she tries to suck out of the
spout of the cup, but nothing comes out. Her father shows her that she needs
to tip the cup to get the liquid to come out. Her initial drinking scheme has come
in conflict. What Piagetian concepts fit with Lauren's cognitive experience?: -
Lauren is in a state of disequilibrium.
- Lauren will organize her knowledge of drinking after experiencing different types of cups.
- Lauren will need to accommodate her drinking scheme to fit the new information.
2. What is the second stage of Piaget's cognitive theory of development?: -
Preoperational Stage
3. According to Piaget's preoperational stage, a child does not yet perform
_______, which are defined as reversible mental actions.: - Operations
4. According to _______ theory, failing the conservation-of-liquid task demon-
strates centration and an inability to mentally reverse actions; indicates that
the child is at the preoperational stage.: - Piaget's
5. If a preoperational child cannot conserve length, the child also will not be able
to conserve number.: - False: children often vary in their performance on different conservation tasks.
6. The ______ operational stage lasts from approximately 7 to 11 years of age. In
this stage, reasoning is logical as long as it is applied to examples.: - Concrete
7. During ______ operational thought stage, an adolescent aged between 11 and
15 years of age will be able to reason logically beyond concrete experiences.: -
Formal
8. The adjustment of the new information into adolescent's world is a descrip-
tion of _______.: - Accommodation
9. Adolescent egocentrism includes which of the following?: - Imaginary Audience
- Personal Fable
- Risk Taking
10. _______ audience emerges from adolescents' belief that others are as inter-
ested in them as they themselves are and that everyone is watching them.: -
Imaginary
11. According to Piaget, cognitive conflict is also known as ______.: - Disequilibrium
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12. Which of the following statements best illustrate the symbolic function sub-
stage?: - Children dressing up to pretend they are knights and wizards.
- Children scribbling a picture to represent their family.
- Children continuing to see the world only from their perspective.
13. Marta feels sorry for the white crayon because no one every uses it and she
thinks it must be sad. This is an example of ________.: - Animism
14. Which of these drawings best describes the cognitive level of a
three-year-old's network?: - A picture of blue sun shining over the pink ocean.
15. The preoperational thought substage that is called ________ though is consid-
ered the period when children seek answers to all sorts of questions.: - Intuitive
16. Around the age five, children will do which of the following?: - Want to know why
things are the way they are.
- Develop an interest in the ability to use reason.
17. The limitation of preoperational thought of focusing attention on one char-
acteristic while excluding all other characteristics is called __________.: - Centration
18. Concrete operations do not allow child to consider multiple characteristics
of an object.: - False
19. The ability to order stimuli along a quantitative dimension is called
__________.: - Seriation
20. A child understands that in order to arrange sticks from shortest to longest,
each stick must be longer than the one that precedes it and shorter than the
one that follows it. This means the child is using __________.: - Seriation
21. Transitivity: - The recognition that a relationship such as the following exists: if A is greater than B and B is
greater than C than A must be greater than C.
22. Trevor understands that if Paul is older than Jake, and Jake is older than
Melissa, then Paul is older than Melissa. Trevor has demonstrated the ability
of __________.: - Transitivity
23. According to Piaget, the fourth and the final stage of cognitive development
is the _______ operational stage.: - Formal
24. ________ operational thoughts is more abstract than ______ operational
thought.: - Formal; Concrete
