A child is largely nonverbal, is learning to coordinate purposeful movements with sense information, and is developing the concept of object permanence. The child is in Piaget’s_____stage.

Related Mcqs:

1. The vocal apparatus for producing speech sounds are useless unless the organism has which area in its brain developed in order to coordinate these movements?

   A. hypothalamus
   B. thalamus
   C. Broca’s area
   D. fissure of Ronaldo

2. A child in Piaget’s preoperational stage is given a toy and attempts to eat it. This child is demonstrating ____________?

   A. generalization
   B. accommodation
   C. assimilation
   D. transition

3. A child is playing with a toy. When you hide the toy, she makes no effort to look for it. According to Jean Piaget, the child is in which stage of cognition?

   A. Concrete Operational
   B. Formal operational
   C. Sensorimotor
   D. Preoperational

4. One subject partially blocks your view of a second object and, therefore, the first object is seen as being closer to you than the second object. This is an example of ________________?

   A. relative size
   B. good continuation
   C. interposition
   D. the Poggendroff illusion

5. A child is creating new schemata to account for new information, Piaget calls this process _________________?

   A. accommodation
   B. assimilation
   C. operations
   D. function autonomy

6. When a child understands that reversible changes in the appearance of an object do not change fundamental properties such as number, width and volume, the child has achieved _______________?

   A. conservation
   B. egocentrism
   C. hypothetic-deductive reasoning
   D. an understanding of cause-and-effect relations

7. Which TWO of the following are true of the learning set procedure?
   1:The animals learns to focus on classes of cues that are inaccurate predictors of reward
   2:In the win-stay, lose-shift strategy, the animal learns to persist with a choice that yields food, but shift to the other object if it does not
   3:In the learning-set procedure, all stimuli and associations have equal effect on the animal’s behaviour
   4:The occurrence of reward can be regarded as a stimulus that can enter into associations or acquire discriminative control over an instrumental action

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

8. Sometimes the visual information available to us about a stimulus is ambiguous because of differences in depth, lighting or shading cues. For example, patterns of shading can create the illusion of objects as protruding from a visual field. How do we make sense of the visual information to recognize ambiguous stimuli?

   A. Visual system relies on other people’s Knowledge of objects to identify ambiguous stimuli
   B. Visual information about protruding objects is impossible to process
   C. Visual system relies on assumptions about the physical world to identify ambiguous stimuli
   D. Both (a) and (c)

9. In psychology, the correct conception of motivation was first described in terms of instinctive behavior. On whose theory was this concept largely based?

   A. Hume
   B. Descartes
   C. Darwin
   D. James

10. 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