EPSY 3010 Quiz 4 – Flashcards
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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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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 notion of:
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assimilation
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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 instead of with chalk.
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Which one of the following best illustrates Piaget's concept of accommodation?
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Donna revises her understanding of what clouds are like when she studies them in science.
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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 learning and cognitive development to occur?
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Mr. Baretta shows students how a new topic is similar to the things they already know, but also different in certain ways.
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Which one of the following best describes Piaget's notion of equilibration?
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A child revises existing schemes to better understand new phenomenon.
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When we try a particular strategy and it does not work, the discomfort we experience is called
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disequilibrium.
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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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In Piaget's theory, an understanding of object permanence is acquired during what period of development?
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Late Sensorimotor
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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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Piaget spoke of egocentrism as a characteristic of preoperational thought. Three of the following are examples of egocentrism as Piaget defined it. Which one is not an example of preoperational egocentrism?
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Justin is constantly grabbing objects and pulling them toward himself.
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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 Operational
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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, he now claims emphatically, "The flat 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 fourth-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 operational
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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 at Piaget's formal operations stage and others are at the concrete operations stage. In which classroom are the concrete operational students 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 one of the following statements best illustrates a neo-Piagetian approach to cognitive development?
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As children grow older, their increasing working memory capacity enables them to think in qualitatively more sophisticated ways about particular content domains.
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Which one of the following strategies is most likely to help students learn from a discovery learning activity?
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Providing some structure to guide students' explorations
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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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Current views about Piaget's theory generally support the idea that
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Piaget tended to underestimate children's abilities and overlook the social and cultural issues.
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According to Piaget, most adults may be able to use formal operational thought in only a few areas in which they have the greatest interest or experience.
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True
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According to our discussion about Piaget's developmental theories, what do you think is Piaget's position on the question of speeding up cognitive development?
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Acceleration is both inefficient and useless.
