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?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. According to Piaget, a child can represent things with words and images but cannot reason with logic during the _____________ stage?

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

3. 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.

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

4. Jean Piaget, contributed generally to cognitive psychology through his accounts of ___________?

   A. animal behavior in the natural environment
   B. intellectual development in children
   C. the mental rules underlying languages use
   D. information processing in computers

5. Jean Piaget’s theory explaining how children’s thought progresses through four stages:

   A. Classical theory
   B. Anomie theory of deviance
   C. cognitive theory of development
   D. Charismatic authority theory

6. Jean Piaget’s theory explaining how children’s thought progresses through four stages:

   A. Classical theory
   B. Anomie theory of deviance
   C. Cognitive theory of development
   D. Charismatic authority theory

7. According to Piaget, the process through which a young child relates something he sees to something he already knows is called _____________?

   A. accommodation
   B. assimilation
   C. formal operation
   D. concrete operation

8. 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

9. According to Piaget, the child’s basic development process includes ______________?

   A. assimilation
   B. schemas
   C. accommodation
   D. all of the above

10. According to Piaget, the major accomplishment of the sensorimotor stage is___________?

    A. Abstract thinking
    B. Egocentrism
    C. Centration
    D. Object permanence