Socially the young child can only attend to one dimension at a time. In cognitive terms this is called ______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. When a child modifies an existing cognitive schema to make it compatible with the cognitive aspects of an incoming stimulus, the process is called _____________?

   A. assimilation
   B. adaptation
   C. conservation
   D. accommodation

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 man explained that he did poorly on his exam because his eyes hurt the test was unfair, and he did not feel the subject was important anyway. The young man is using what type of defense mechanism?

   A. rationalization
   B. fantasy
   C. projection
   D. displacement

4. Intra- sexual homicide (young men kill young men more than females kill females) would offer support for:

   A. biological basis of aggression
   B. adaptively basis of aggression
   C. homicidal protest
   D. media causes violence hypothesis

5. When a child acquires the ability to represent the world internally through the use of symbols, he enters which of Piaget’s stages of cognitive development?

   A. sensorimotor
   B. secondary circular reactions
   C. concrete operational
   D. preoperational

6. In which of Piaget’s stages of cognitive development will a child realize that when a volume of water is poured from a tall, narrow beaker, to a wide beaker, the volume remains the same even though it reaches a lower level?

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

7. 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

8. In listening to two conversations simultaneously, it is possible to attend to one and ignore the other if the differ in ______________?

   A. semantics
   B. pragmatics
   C. syntax
   D. pitch

9. Students stand in groups waiting for someone to unlock their classroom. The people in each group are able to attend to the voices in their own conversation group and screen out the voices in others. This is an example of ______________?

   A. shadowing
   B. selective listening
   C. parallel processing
   D. None of these

10. 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