Yasmin has decided to try a different restaurant. Instead of going to McDonalds like she usually does, she decides to go to KFC: Yasmin figures the two places are similar. According to Piaget, to Yasmin this new experience is an example of:

Related Mcqs:

1. A student who has never studied decides to try it and is delighted to receive a B on the exam rather than the usual D. The student starts studying more regularly as a result of __________________?

   A. classical conditioning
   B. habituation
   C. positive reinforcement
   D. b and c

2. According to Piaget, a child who is confident that the quantity of milk is a glass does not change when it is poured into a glass of different shape is probably _________________?

   A. between 3 and 5 years old
   B. able to conserve volume
   C. in the preoperational stage of cognitive development
   D. engaging in egocentric patterns of play

3. Which of the following is true of personal construct theory? 1: George Kelly developed personal construct theory to examine how individuals view the world. 2: Personal construct theory portrays people as victims of unconscious desires and impulses. 3: Personal construct theory does not try to locate the individual on the personality theorists, dimensions. 4: Kelly basically took the view that we are all artists.

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

4. The Law “similar things give rise to similar things” is called law of:

   A. Similarity
   B. Dissimilarity
   C. Recurrence
   D. None of these

5. Rasheed watches as customer with at least 40 items lines up at his express checkout line. He decides the customer must be a real “idiot” to miss the sign that indicates Rasheed’s checkout line is an express line with a limit of 10 items. Rasheed’s attribution for the cause of the customer’s behavior is consistent with_________?

   A. drawing an illusory correlation
   B. false consensus effect
   C. the fundamental attribution error
   D. a defensive attribution

6. After spending an exciting day running around at Lasertron, Jared decides to stay home and watch television rather than going out dancing. Jared’s decision to stay home is most consistent with the ______theory of motivation.

   A. Instinct
   B. evolutionary
   C. arousal
   D. need

7. 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

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

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

9. According to Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, middle childhood is characterized by ______________?

   A. hypothetical reasoning
   B. deductive thinking
   C. concrete operations
   D. egocentric thinking

10. 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