Deck 11: Jean Piaget

Question 1

Epistemology is a branch of philosophy that is concerned with:

A)beauty
B)the nature of knowledge
C)the relationship between science and religion
D)the relationship between biology and intelligence

Answer 1

the nature of knowledge

Question 2

Which of the following is an observation that Piaget made while working in the Binet laboratory?

A)the more test items a child answered correctly the more intelligent the child was
B)a child's correct answers to test questions were more informative than a child's incorrect answers
C)a child's incorrect answers to test questions were more informative than a child's correct answers
D)children seemed to miss the same test questions regardless of how old the children were

Answer 2

a child's incorrect answers to test questions were more informative than a child's correct answers

Question 3

According to Piaget, intelligence must always be understood in terms of:

A)scores on valid I.Q.tests
B)a person's cultural background
C)verbal ability
D)survival

Answer 3

survival

Question 4

A schema is:

A)an element in an organism's cognitive structure
B)the general potential to engage in a class of overt or covert actions
C)the same as content
D)both a and b

Question 5

Accommodation means much the same thing as:

A)knowing
B)learning
C)thinking
D)equilibration

Question 6

Piaget's major motivational concept was:

A)interiorization
B)assimilation
C)accommodation
D)equilibration

Question 7

Piaget called an internal, covert action a(n):

A)schema
B)operation
C)cognitive structure
D)functional invariant

Question 8

Reversibility means that once something is thought, it can be:

A)thought of again
B)forgotten
C)"unthought"
D)acted upon

Question 9

"Children at this stage are egocentric.Everything is seen with themselves as a frame of reference and their psychological world is the only one that exists."

A)formal operations
B)concrete operations
C)preoperational thinking
D)sensorimotor

Question 10

A child saying all men are "Daddy," represents which of the following kinds of logic?

A)transductive
B)inductive
C)deductive
D)syllogistic

Question 11

The highest stage of intellectual development is:

A)concrete operations
B)sensorimotor stage
C)period of intuitive thought
D)formal operations

Question 12

According to Piaget, learning will be optimal if the material presented is:

A)not too easy
B)not too hard
C)completely understood by the student
D)both a and b

Question 13

The term "progressive equilibrium" refers to:

A)the fact that cognitive balances gained later in life are more stable than those gained earlier
B)the fact that older children have a greater tolerance for ambiguity than do younger children
C)new cognitive balances are always based on old ones
D)all of the above

Question 14

The term was used by Piaget to describe the fact that a balance or organization that is sought is optimal under existing circumstances, but circumstances are constantly changing.

A)intelligence
B)progressive equilibrium
C)genetic epistemology
D)learning dilemma

Question 15

Piaget and the behaviorists agree that education must be

A)individualized
B)transformational
C)informal
D)reinforcing

Question 16

While working in the Binet laboratory, Piaget observed that the kind of questions a child answered incorrectly was a function of the child's:

A)age
B)gender
C)experience
D)general health

Question 17

Using an open-ended form of questioning called___Piaget's questions were determined by a child's answers.

A)psychodrama
B)objective inquisition
C)the clinical method
D)role playing

Question 18

The term "Genetic Epistemology" refers to:

A)the contribution of inheritance to intellectual ability
B)the fact that some kinds of knowledge are genetically determined
C)developmental intelligence
D)the slow development of a cognitive map

Question 19

In both the case of overt behavior and of thinking, the term refers to the specifics of a particular manifestation of a schema.

A)operation
B)interiorization
C)functional invariant
D)content

Question 20

Assimilation means much the same thing as:

A)knowing
B)learning
C)thinking
D)equilibration

Question 21

Which of the following is a functional invariant?

A)assimilation
B)accommodation
C)both a and b
D)none of the above

Question 22

Equilibration refers to:

A)the increased tendency to rely more and more on mental operations
B)the innate need for balance between the organism and its environment
C)the realization that number, length, substance, or area has not changed although it may be presented in a number of different ways
D)developmental intelligence

Question 23

For Piaget, the driving force behind all intellectual growth was:

A)interiorization
B)equilibration
C)assimilation
D)accommodation

Question 24

Interiorization refers to:

A)the increased tendency to rely more and more on mental operations
B)the innate need for balance between the organism and its environment
C)the realization that number, length, substance, or area has not changed although it may be presented in a number of different ways
D)developmental intelligence

Question 25

The term can be roughly equated with thinking.

A)schema
B)equilibration
C)assimilation
D)operation

Question 26

According to Piaget's theory, the most important characteristic of any operation is that it is:

A)innate
B)interiorized
C)reversible
D)functionally invariant

Question 27

If a child can first add 10 and 3 making a total of 13 and then mentally subtract 3 from 13 making a total of 10, the child has demonstrated:

A)reversibility of thought
B)maturity
C)that he is at the sensorimotor stage of development
D)the Law of Pragnanz

Question 28

Which stage of intellectual development is characterized by the absence of language?

A)sensorimotor
B)period of intuitive thought
C)concrete operations
D)formal operations

Question 29

The stage of intellectual development where conservation first appears is:

A)concrete operations
B)sensorimotor stage
C)period of intuitive thought
D)formal operations

Question 30

"All learning depends upon failure." This statement describes what Dollard and Miller called:

A)frustrative nonreinforcement
B)the learning dilemma
C)the frustration effect (FE)
D)a vicious circle