PSYCH180 Quiz 6 Exam Questions With Correct Answers
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PSYCH180 Quiz 6 Exam Questions With
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His own three children - answerThe famous Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget used
______________________ for detailed cognitive observations leading to his research.
cognitive-development theory - answerPiaget is associated with which of the follo...
PSYCH180 Quiz 6 Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
His own three children - answer✔✔The famous Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget used
______________________ for detailed cognitive observations leading to his research.
cognitive-development theory - answer✔✔Piaget is associated with which of the following
theories?
imprinting - answer✔✔All of the following concepts except ________________ can be
attributed to Piaget and his work on cognitive development.
Schemes - answer✔✔_______________________ are actions or mental representations that
organize knowledge.
simple organized pattern of knowledge - answer✔✔A scheme is best thought of as a
assimilation and accommodation - answer✔✔According to Piaget, we adapt in what two ways?
incorporating is to adjusting - answer✔✔Assimilation is to accommodation as
accommodation - answer✔✔Four-year-old Tom learns to lift his stuffed cat up by the tail. After
one painful attempt, Tom realizes that you cannot use this behavior on a live cat. In Piagetian
terms, Tom's new knowledge involves
accommodation - answer✔✔Twelve-year-old Jill traveled with her parents to a third-world
country to volunteer at a mission. When she returned to her home in the United States, she had
altered many of her ideas about what she valued. What Piagetian process was at work?
assimilation - answer✔✔Elizabeth, a 7-month-old infant, responds to holding her first orange by
rolling it around on the floor just like she does with her blue rubber ball. This demonstrates what
Piagetian process?
assimilation - answer✔✔While strolling through the zoo with his mother, 5-year-old Tim sees a
penguin for the first time. He stares at the animal for a while and then tells his mother, "See the
wings and beak, that's just some kind of bird." From a Piagetian perspective, Tim's behavior is
best explained by
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organization - answer✔✔Five-year-old Marge watches other children playing in a sandlot. At
first she only understands swinging at the ball with a bat. Then she learns about running,
catching, and pitching. Eventually, Marge develops a functional cognitive system called "playing
baseball." According to Piaget, Marge has achieved __________ of baseball information.
disequilibrium - answer✔✔Piaget argued that movement from one stage of thought to the next
was triggered by
disequilibrium - answer✔✔Frank is thoroughly confused when his father refers to his Aunt
Susan as his sister Sue because according to Frank's logic, a person cannot be both a sister and an
aunt. Piaget would refer to Frank's confusion as involving
equilibration - answer✔✔________________________ is a mechanism to explain how children
shift from one stage of thought to the next. Once children have solved the cognitive conflict and
reached a balance it is attained.
qualitative - answer✔✔If William is a preoperational-stage thinker and Mary is a concrete-
operational thinker, which term would a Piagetian use to characterize the difference between
William and Mary's intellectual skills?
sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational - answer✔✔What is the
correct developmental sequence of Piaget's stages of cognitive development?
sensorimotor - answer✔✔What is Piaget's first stage of cognitive development?
is halfway through - answer✔✔If all you knew about Art was that he was having his first
birthday, you would most likely predict that he ________________________ the sensorimotor
stage of development.
learning to coordinate sensations, responses, actions, and the nonsymbolic aspects of the period.
- answer✔✔The main task during the sensorimotor stage involves
simple reflexes - answer✔✔What is the first substage of sensorimotor thought?
at the beginning of the sensorimotor stage - answer✔✔When do simple reflexes occur in Piaget's
four stages?
reflexes - answer✔✔According to Piaget, an infant's first schemes consist of
simple reflexes - answer✔✔Three-week-old Katherine has been breast-fed, but is now
introduced to the bottle. She responds by modifying her sucking to adequately receive her milk.
This illustrates what substage of sensorimotor thought?
in the first month after birth - answer✔✔Piaget's sensorimotor substage of simple reflexes occurs
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