A child who knows how to tie shoelaces would probably find it relatively easy to learn how to tie a bow. Piaget would call this thinking process:

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. A test of the capacity to learn a particular skill and to learn within a specific area of knowledge is called a/an ____________________?

   A. aptitude test
   B. achievement test
   C. projective test
   D. acquisition test

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

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

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

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

8. A child can learn only:

   A. What is taught to him
   B. What does he learn at home
   C. For what he wishes to learn
   D. What he find in his environment

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. Our tendency to notice and remember instance in which a premonition of an unlikely phone call is actually followed by the call most clearly contribute to:

    A. the placebo effect
    B. the false consensus effect
    C. replication
    D. an illusory correlation