PECT PREK-4 MODULE 1 PRACTICE TEST QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS 2024/2025 GRADED A.
5 years - (answers)What age do you develop the ability to Conserve?
conserve - (answers)realizing that amounts are the same regardless of their
appearance.
Between 2-6 years - (answers)At what age are children in the Preoperational
stage?
Piaget's Preoperational stage of cognitive development - (answers)-symbolic
representation especially during pretend/make-believe play
-not yet capable of performing mental "operations".
-intuitive thinking (rather than following logical steps)
-Egocentric
Egocentrism - (answers)Being unable to literally adopt another's point-of-view.
Assimilation - (answers)When we can fit something new into an existing schema.
Accommodation - (answers)When something new cannot be assimilated into an
existing schema; either modify the schema or form a new schema.
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Assimilation and Accommodation - (answers)What constitutes the process of
adaptation?
It is how they learn about themselves and the world through interactions with
their bodies and the environment. - (answers)Why do babies and children form
schemas?
Conservation - (answers)The cognitive ability to understand that objects or
substances retain their properties of #'s or amount even when their appearance,
shape, or configuration changes.
1. Inborn reflexes
2. Primary Circular reactions
3. Secondary circular reactions
4. Coordination or reactions
5. Tertiary circular reaction
6. Earl representational thought - (answers)What are the substages of Piaget's
sensorimotor stage?
Birth to 2 years old - (answers)At what age are children in the sensory-motor
stage?
-They learn through environmental input they receive through their sense, motor
actions they engage in, and through feedback they receive from their bodies and
the environment about their actions.
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-Learn through repeated experiences. - (answers)What do children in the
sensorimotor stage learn?
If they search for the object after it is moved or hidden. - (answers)What is a sign
that a child has developed object permanence?
schema - (answers)Mental constructs or concepts that represent elements of the
environment in categories or classes of things.
object permanence - (answers)The idea that things continue to exist even when
they are out of sight.
-Ability to think logically
-Trouble understanding abstract concepts or hypothetical situations
-Apply logical sequence and cause and effect to things they can see, feel, and
manipulate.
-Can conserve
-Develop proficiency in inductive logic
-Reversibility - (answers)What are the characteristics of the concrete operational
stage?
reversibility - (answers)The ability to reverse an action or operation.