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 _____________?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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?

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

2. 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

3. A young child who sees a cow for the first time calls it a ‘doggie’. This illustrates the process of ________________?

   A. accommodation
   B. object prominence
   C. conservation
   D. assimilation

4. Consider the following statements: Moral understanding in a child of 5 years of age is limited because of their:

   A. cognitive immaturity
   B. belief in immanent justice
   C. belief in absolution of moral perspective
   D. All of the above

5. When two groups of participants were each shown a different set of results based on a experiment with rats, both groups reported that the results shown to them were obvious outcomes. This suggests that sometimes things appear to be more obvious than they should. Which cognitive phenomenon can explain this effect?

   A. Hindsight bias
   B. Intuition
   C. Availability heuristic
   D. Conditional reasoning

6. The relationship between a child’s intellectual development and the age at which the child first walks is _____________?

   A. strong
   B. moderate
   C. nonexistent
   D. lower

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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