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

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1. 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

2. A teacher believes that one group of children is very bright and that a second is below average in ability, Actually the groups are identical, but the first group progresses more rapidly than the second this demonstrates:

   A. the self-fulfilling prophecy
   B. the placebo effect in a natural experiment
   C. observer bias in naturalistic
   D. the ethical problems of field experiments

3. In Piaget’s theory, the first two years of life are called the ___________ stages ?

   A. Paralinguistic
   B. Exploratory
   C. Sensorimotor
   D. Preoperational

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. 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

6. Researchers have demonstrated that between the ages of 6 and 10, the meaning of “friendship” progresses in the following way:

   A. Mutual support to reciprocity to social ties
   B. Mutual liking to trust reciprocity
   C. Reciprocity to mutual liking to trust
   D. Trust to sharing to mutual liking

7. Piaget contented that the initial forms of thought are _____________?

   A. early action schemes
   B. verbal symbols
   C. visual symbols
   D. spoken (not mental) verbal symbols

8. According to Piaget, the ability to ‘think like a scientist’ is characteristic of which of the following developmental stages?

   A. preoperational
   B. sensorimotor
   C. formal operational
   D. post-conventional

9. According to Piaget, cognitive development occurs through a fixed sequence of stages, each distinguished from the prior stage by a ________________?

   A. larger number of schemes
   B. new kind of scheme
   C. increasing use of accommodation
   D. increasing use of assimilation

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