The stage of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development occurs during adolescence and refers to the ability to reason about abstract concepts and principles and evaluate issues in the broader social environment?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which one of the following statements are true of the Wason selection, or four-card problem (Wason,1966)?
   1. The Wason Selection Task is a good task because it produces identical results in concrete and abstract forms
   2. In general, concrete versions of the task are more difficult to think about than uncluttered abstract versions.
   3. Although the task is one of pure reasoning some concrete versions are easier because of how we think in certain social situations.
   4. People typically pick one card correctly, but pick an inappropriate one as the second choice in the original version of the task.

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 3 & 4
   C. 1 & 4
   D. 2 & 3

2. According to Tuckman’s five stage model of group development, which stage refers to the period of development when people struggle with each other over leadership and group definition?

   A. Performing
   B. Storming
   C. Forming
   D. Adjourning

3. According to Tuckman’s five stage model of group development, which stage refers to the period of development when people struggle with each other over leadership and group definition?

   A. Performing
   B. Storming
   C. Forming
   D. Adjourning

4. 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

5. In Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, internalizing of action schemes is the major task of the______________ stage?

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

6. The most common way of studying human cognitive processing is to evaluate ____________________?

   A. semantic shifts
   B. EEG readings
   C. reaction time
   D. rehearsal time

7. 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

8. Following are the stage of Adolescence:

   A. The adolescent strives to grow up, to the big and yet also to have some of the security that goes with being little
   B. There is something radical about – being an adolescent, yet also something radical conservative
   C. The adolescent, if able to draw upon his resources, has a great capacity for flexibility, et he is also in many ways, a rigid person
   D. All of the above

9. ____________________ is an ability to evaluate compare, analyze, critique, and synthesize information.

   A. critical thinking
   B. Transudative thinking
   C. Deductive thinking
   D. Creative thinking

10. The prenatal period, childhood and adolescence usually are referred to as representing sequential maturation or development towards____maturity:

    A. Mental
    B. Life
    C. Adult
    D. Attitude