DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY WK 3 READING CH 3 BURKITT

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1. Joe's mother has 2 crackers, both of equal size. She breaks 1 of the crackers up into 4 pieces. Joe says he wants the one with the most & immediately chooses the 4 pieces, even though they are both equal. This illustrates Piaget's concept of:

  • Conservation
  • Accommodation
  • Egocentrism
  • False belief
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2. Which of the following is NOT part of Piaget's theory of cognitive development?

  • Concrete operational stage
  • Formal operational stage
  • Preoperational stage
  • Trust vs. Mistrust
  • Sensorimotor stage

3. At which sensorimotor substage do children begin to develop symbols to represent events or objects in the world?

  • Secondary Circular Reactions
  • Early Representational Thought
  • Tertiary Circular Reactions
  • Primary Circular Reactions

4. What, according to Piaget, does the A not B error show?

  • An error in the mental perception of objects seen in infants before the age of 1
  • An error in an infant’s ability to change their existing knowledge of a topic
  • An error in an infant’s ability to maintain the status quo
  • An error in the mental perception of objects in the formal operational stage

5. According to Piaget, children are ______ in constructing their understanding of the world.

  • Active
  • Bystanders
  • Passive
  • Neutral
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