A. The conservation test can only be conducted with children aged under 5 years.
B. In the water conservation task, the level of liquid is maintained at exactly the same height when it is transferred to a differently shaped beaker
C. Th pre-operational child’s judgement is swayed by one dimension, such as the fact that the contents of one beaker look taller than the other
D. None of the above
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following statements about Jean Piaget is NOT true?
A. Piaget developed a model of cognitive development which holds that children’s thinking progresses through a series of orderly stages.
B. According to Piaget, the sensorimotor stage extends from approximately 2 to 7 years of age.
C. Piaget regarded the child in the sensorimotor stage as acting to learn about itself and its relations to the environment.
D. Piaget believed that children learn by doing. - Which of the statement given below is an accurate assertion in relation to learning about gender?
A. Children do not segregate by gender in the pre-school years.
B. It is generally accepted that gender roles are acquired because of our biological pre-programming
C. By the early pre-school years, most or children know whether they are a boy or girl and can distinguish men from women.
D. Girls initially tend to be more physically active than boys. - According to Jean Piaget, what is the first stage of cognitive development, occurring from birth to two years of age?
A. Sensorimotor stage
B. Infant cognition stage
C. Object permanance
D. Sensory information stage - According to Piaget, the preoperational stage refers to the development of which cognitive abilities in children?
A. Child begins to speak for the first time
B. Child begins to recognize faces of primary caregivers
C. Child begins to solve problems logically
D. Child begins to represent the world symbolically but remains intutive and egocentric - Which of the following statements is true in language development?
A. In their first few months of life, infants can discriminate among sounds in foreign languages that are not used in their own community
B. In their first few months of life, infants can only discriminate among sounds in the language of their own community
C. Towards the end of our teens, we begin to lose our sensitivity to phonetic contrasts in languages other that one(s) we learned as children
D. Language acquistion is complete by about age 4 - Which of the following statements about theory of mind is ?
A. Theory of mind refers to the understanding that people have mental states that influence our behaviour
B. Findings from theory of mind studies indicate that pre-schoolers have few problems understanding is an outcome of their mental states.
C. Mental states include thoughts beliefs, feelings, desires
D. If you have a theory of mind. you understand that people act according to what they beelieve to the case - Which one of the statements below is correct in relation to children’s perceptual and motor development in the pre-school years?
A. By the age of 2, many children have begun to walk unaided manipulate objects independently
B. A 3-years-old is likely to be quite mobile but may find it difficult to run
C. A typical 3-years old has the same agility as a typical 5-years old
D. Skills such as throwing and catching jumping and hopping begin to emerge at around t to 8 years - Which reflex in infants ensures that normal infants will respond to contact with the mothers’ breast by seeking out the nipple and feeding?
A. Rooting reflex
B. Moro reflex
C. Sucking reflex
D. A and C - An infant acts relatively indifferent to her mother’s presence, does not seem greatly disturbed by her departure, and does not go to her when she returns. This is an example of which type of infant attachment style according to Marry Ainsworth and colleagues?
A. Secure attachment
B. Increase attachment /resistant
C. Insecure attachment/avoidant
D. Preoperational attachment - How does Noam Chomsky explain the rapid and complex acquistion of language in children?
A. Knowledge of language is modeled from caregivers
B. Knowledge of language is innate
C. Knowledge of language is reinforced in school
D. Knowledge of language is reinforced and practiced with peer groups
