Exam 12: Cognitive-Developmental Perspectives

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:

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?

Piaget's sensorimotor stage is characterized by:

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.

From Piaget's perspective, why might it be wise to postpone the teaching of complex fractions until middle school or high school? a. Younger students haven't attained conservation. *b Younger students haven't acquired proportional reasoning. c Younger students can't learn complex equations. d. Younger students don't know their math facts well enough.

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:

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

As Valerie grows older, she becomes increasingly proficient in a variety of tasks involving numerical reasoning, including counting, adding and subtracting, and comparing two-digit numbers. From a neo-Piagetian perspective, Valerie's simultaneous progress in these diverse areas reflects the idea that she:

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

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Which one of the following reflects class inclusion as Piaget described it?

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

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?