In order to understand that a ball of clay can take a different shape without either losing or gaining substance, which of Piaget’s stages must the child have reached?

Related Mcqs:

1. A child is shown two identical balls of clay, sees one of them rolled into a rod shape, and is then asked which ball contains more clay. This child is being tested for an understanding of _____________?

   A. object permanence
   B. conservation of substance
   C. the reversibility of actions
   D. logical possibilities

2. Select the TWO correct statements from those below with regard to psychological research:
   1.You can fully understand the result of an IQ test without knowing anything about intelligence testing and standard scores.
   2. if two things are correlated this signifies that one is the cause of the other.
   3. A good knowledge of psychological research methods allows you to avoid making the mistakes that journalists politicians and many others make because they lack the necessary conceptual understanding.
   4. In most countries, in order to become a psychologist, you will be required to conduct a piece of psychological research.

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 2 & 3
   C. 1 & 4
   D. 3 & 4

3. Gorging on food and then vomiting or taking laxatives to avoid gaining weight is called:

   A. behavioral dieting
   B. fad dieting
   C. purging
   D. bulimia nervosa

4. Which of the following statements relating to the stages in Freud’s psychogenetic model of development matches up with Freud’s suggestions?Which of the following statements relating to the stages in Freud’s psychogenetic model of development matches up with Freud’s suggestions?

   A. At an early oral stage children usually start to explore their environment but experience control and discipline from their parents
   B. Fixation at the anal stage results in children deriving pleasure in adulthood from activities such as overeating, smoking, drinking and kissing
   C. At the genital stage children discover pleasure from touching their genitals
   D. During the latency period sexual impulses are rechanneled into activities such as sport, learning and social activities

5. According to Piaget, a child who is confident that the quantity of milk is a glass does not change when it is poured into a glass of different shape is probably _________________?

   A. between 3 and 5 years old
   B. able to conserve volume
   C. in the preoperational stage of cognitive development
   D. engaging in egocentric patterns of play

6. When a child acquires the ability to represent the world internally through the use of symbols, he enters which of Piaget’s stages of cognitive development?

   A. sensorimotor
   B. secondary circular reactions
   C. concrete operational
   D. preoperational

7. In which of Piaget’s stages of cognitive development will a child realize that when a volume of water is poured from a tall, narrow beaker, to a wide beaker, the volume remains the same even though it reaches a lower level?

   A. preoperational
   B. sensorimotor
   C. concrete operational
   D. formal operation

8. Which is the last of the pre-linguistic stages in a child’s development of speech?

   A. phonemes
   B. basic cry
   C. babbling
   D. anagrammatic

9. The child is very egocentric during which of Piaget’s stages?

   A. preoperational
   B. formal
   C. sensorimotor
   D. Piaget does not say what stage the example would fit into

10. In order to understand the unusual behavior of an adult client, a clinical psychologist has carefully investigated the client’s current life situation and his physical, social-cultural, educational history which research method has the psychologist employed?

    A. the case study
    B. the survey
    C. naturalistic observation
    D. correlational research