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Mr. Remick asks 9-year-old Anne to divide a pitcher of lemonade equally between two glasses, one each for her and her friend Kate. The two glasses are different shapes, with Anne's being tall and thin and Kate's being short and wide. After Anne pours the lemonade, Mr. Remick says to her, "look, the lemonade in your glass is higher than the lemonade in Kate's glass. Did you give yourself more than you gave Kate?" "No," Anne replies, "my glass is skinnier." Mr. Remick continues to ask Anne questions to determine how well she understands that height compensates for width in this situation. Mr. Remick's strategy can best be described as illustrating:

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The Clinical Method

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Larger systems of mental processes are known as:

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Operations

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From Piaget's perspective, children are:

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Eager to interact with and make sense of their world

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Which one of the following statements best describes Piaget's view of how children acquire knowledge about the world?

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Children actively construct their own view of the world from their experiences with the environment

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Five-year-old Becky is playing with blocks, stacking them one on top of another until her towers eventually tumble, and then stacking them again. Which one of the following best reflects Piaget's view of how Becky is probably learning in this situation?

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She is actively thinking about and interpreting the results of her actions

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Which one of the following statements best describes the idea that cognitive development involves a process of construction?

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Children pull together pieces of information about a topic to create their own understanding

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In Piaget's theory, a scheme can best be described as:

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An organized group of similar thoughts or actions

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In her first trip to a zoo, 7-year-old Latisha notices that leopards have paws very similar in shape to her cat Snowball's paws. She also notices that leopards walk in much the same way that Snowball does. Latisha starts to wonder if perhaps leopards are cats. Latisha's thinking illustrates Piaget's idea that thought is characterized by:

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Use of schemes

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Which of the following is not a concept described by Piaget?

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Zone of proximal development

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Which one of the following clearly illustrates Piaget's concept of assimilation?

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Five-year-old Harvey draws on the chalkboard with a large white crayon in stead of with chalk

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Louis receives a new soccer ball and begins to dribble it in the same way he dribbles his basketball. His dribbling of the new ball reflects Piaget's concept of:

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assimilation

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Which one of the following best illustrates Piaget's concept of accommodation?

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Carol receives her understanding of what clouds are like when she studies them in science

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The processes of assimilation and accommodation both involve:

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Relating new information to prior knowledge

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Which one of the following teachers is definitely keeping in mind Piaget's idea that assimilation and accommodation are both necessary for cognitive development?

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Mr. Chang shows students how a new topic is similar to the things they already know but also different in certain ways.

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According to Piaget, three of the following are essential for cognitive development. Which one is not?

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High self-esteem

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From Piaget's perspective, social interactions are most likely to promote cognitive development when:

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Children share and explain different points of view

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as a first-grade teacher reads a book about penguins in Antarctica an a globe. Six-year-old John seems really puzzled. "How come they don't fall off the earth?" he asks. From Piaget's perspective, John can best be describe as:

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Experiencing disequilibrium

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Which one of the following best reflects Piaget's notion of equilibration?

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A child revises existing schemes to incorporate new information

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Piaget's view of cognitive development can best be described as:

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Discrete stages in which distinctly different forms of logical thought emerge

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Mr. Johnson teaches a class of twenty 7- and 8-year old second graders. His goal for the upcoming school year is to help at least 50% of his students reach formal operations. From the perspective of Piaget's theory, we would expect that Mr. Johnson's goal is:

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Almost impossible to attain

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Piaget's sensorimotor stage is characterized by:

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Schemes based primarily on perceptions and behaviors

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Which one of the following examples best illustrates Piaget's concept of object permanence?

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Two-year-old Jasmine looks for a favorite toy her father has just hidden in a box

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Which one of the following examples best illustrates symbolic thought?

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Laura asks herself, "hmm, where did I put my social studies book?"

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From Piaget's perspective, why is language critical for children's cognitive development?

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It gives them a means for symbolically thinking about objects and events

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Piaget spoke of egocentrism as a characteristic of pre-operational thought. three of the following are examples of egocentrism as Piaget defined it. Which one is not?

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Justin is constantly grabbing objects and pulling them toward himself

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Roger is shown two piles of sand and says that each pile has the same amount. However, when one pile is flattened with a shovel, Roger now claims emphatically that the flattened pile has less sand. Based on this information, Roger is probably in Piaget's _____ stage of development.

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Pre-operational

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imagine that you are a third-grade teacher. if you were to make predictions based on Piaget's stages of cognitive development, you would expect most or all of your students to exhibit _____ thinking.

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Concrete operations

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If we look at cognitive development from Piaget's perspective, we would expect a child in the concrete operations stage to have the greatest difficulty with which one of the following questions?

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An apple pie is cut into 4 pieces. A blueberry pie of the same size is cut into 12 pieces. how many pieces of blueberry pie do you need to have the same amount as 3 pieces of apple pie?

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The following four junior high school science teachers are teaching the concept molecule to their students. In each classroom, some of the students are frequently using formal operational reasoning. In which classroom are the concrete operational thinkers most likely to have difficulty understanding?

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Mr. Carmen verbally describes how different elements are made up of different numbers of neutrons, protons, and electrons.

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Which of the following statements reflects a concern about the separation and control of variables?

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"I'm catching more tadpoles today, but I don't know if its because i'm using a larger container to catch them or because i'm working in a different part of the frog pond"

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Carl can correctly answer a question such as, "If all flegs are blats, and if all blats are dulms, are all flegs also dulms?" From Piaget's Perspective, Carl is most likely in the _______ stage of cognitive development.

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Formal operations

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Olivia understands why 3/5 and 9/15 are equivalent fractions. Based on this information, Olivia is probably in Piaget's ______ stage of cognitive development.

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Formal operations

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James is talking about how much better the world would be if everyone just agreed to love everyone else. in Piaget's view, James is most likely to be

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14 years old

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choose the statement below that most accurately reflects recent research findings concerning Piaget's theory of cognitive development

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The order in which various logical thinking capabilities emerge is consistent with the sequence the Piaget Proposed

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Which one of the following conclusions can be derived from recent research regarding Piaget's Theory of cognitive development?

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Youngsters will think more logically about a topic when they have acquired relevant knowledge and experiences related to the topic

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In describing the cognitive abilities of infants, Piaget appears to have:

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Underestimated what they know and can do

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When neo-Piagetian theorists suggest that working memory capacity increases with age, they mean that as children get older they:

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Can simultaneously think about more things at a single time

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As Valerie grows older, she becomes increasingly proficient in a variety of tasks involving spatial reasoning, including drawing three-dimensional figures, solving geometry problems, and predicting where balls are apt to go when she hits them in a tennis game. Form a neo-Piagetian perspective, Valerie's simultaneous progress in these diverse areas suggests that she:

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Has a central conceptual structure for spatial tasks

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Which one of the following would Piaget be least likely to advocate for elementary school children?

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Lectures that describe interesting scientific facts

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From Piaget's perspective, why might it be wise to postpone the teaching of complex fractions until middle school or high school

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Younger students haven't attained proportional reasoning

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Three of the following teaching practices are consistent with Piaget's theory of cognitive development. which one is not?

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A second-grade teacher encourages students to speculate about possible explanations as to why kites of different shapes fly differently and then test each explanation systematically.

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Which one of the following conditions is most likely to help children learn from a discovery learning activity?

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Having some prior knowledge about the material explored

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Three of the following teaching strategies should help students benefit from a discovery learning activity. which strategy is least likely to be helpful?

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Mr. DiCicco takes his students to the site of a Civil War battle and says "OK, look around and see what you can find that might be of interest to your peers"

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Which one of the following best illustrates how sociocognitive conflict might promote cognitive development?

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The students in a cooperative learning group discuss different ways of solving a difficult math problem.

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