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A child pretends a banana is a phone and pours tea into an invisible cup. Which Piaget stage?Read the answer and worked solution →A young child cannot see things from another person's point of view. Piaget calls this:Read the answer and worked solution →Piaget's three mountain task, in which a child judges a doll's view of a model, tests for:Read the answer and worked solution →A child who slips on the road says, 'The road hurt me.' Piaget calls this thinking:Read the answer and worked solution →A child says the clouds are white because someone painted them. Piaget calls this:Read the answer and worked solution →A child hears a dog bark, then a balloon pops, and decides the bark popped it. This is:Read the answer and worked solution →Between about 4 and 7 years, children ask endless 'why' questions. Piaget named this substage:Read the answer and worked solution →A child insists a tall narrow glass holds more juice than a short wide one with the same amount. This shows:Read the answer and worked solution →A child cannot imagine pouring water back into its first glass to undo a change. This is:Read the answer and worked solution →Shown 8 dogs and 3 cats, a 4-year-old says there are more dogs than animals. She lacks:Read the answer and worked solution →A young child knows A is bigger than B and B is bigger than C, but not that A is bigger than C. She lacks:Read the answer and worked solution →Knowing that an amount stays the same when its shape or container changes is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Conservation first appears in which Piaget stage?Read the answer and worked solution →Which kind of conservation do children usually master last?Read the answer and worked solution →A child says a row of coins has more once it is spread out. Which conservation is missing?Read the answer and worked solution →A clay ball is rolled into a sausage. A child says, 'You could roll it back, so it is the same.' This shows:Read the answer and worked solution →A child judges juice in a tall thin glass by noting both its height and its narrowness. This ability is:Read the answer and worked solution →Arranging sticks in order from shortest to longest is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Piaget found that children in the concrete operational stage are good at which kind of reasoning?Read the answer and worked solution →A pendulum task asks if length, weight or push controls the swing. It tests for:Read the answer and worked solution →A teenager is sure everyone will notice an ink spot on his shirt. Elkind calls this:Read the answer and worked solution →A teenager believes no one has ever felt what he feels and that he is one of a kind. This is:Read the answer and worked solution →What does research show about formal operations?Read the answer and worked solution →Piaget's term for uneven progress, where a child solves one task of a stage but not a similar one:Read the answer and worked solution →Baillargeon's studies of 3-month-olds challenged Piaget by showing:Read the answer and worked solution →A common criticism of Piaget's theory is that it:Read the answer and worked solution →Hughes's 'policeman doll' task suggested children can take another's view as early as:Read the answer and worked solution →Piaget studied how children think mainly by using:Read the answer and worked solution →Which classroom approach most directly applies Piaget's ideas?Read the answer and worked solution →Piaget held that a child's language depends mainly on:Read the answer and worked solution →

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A child pretends a banana is a phone and pours tea into an invisible cup. Which Piaget stage?

  1. Sensorimotor stage
  2. Concrete operational stage
  3. Preoperational stage
  4. Formal operational stage
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Correct answer: C. Preoperational stage

1. Using one object to stand for another (banana as phone) is symbolic or make-believe play. 2. Piaget linked this new ability to represent objects to the preoperational stage, about 2 to 7 years. 3. Such dramatic play is a typical sign of preoperational thinking. **Why not the others:** Sensorimotor infants do not yet use symbols this way; concrete and formal operational children have moved past make-believe as their main mode. _Source: Seifert and Sutton, Educational Psychology, 2nd ed. (2009, CC BY 3.0), Ch 3, section "The preoperational stage: age 2 to 7", p. 48_

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A young child cannot see things from another person's point of view. Piaget calls this:

  1. Animism
  2. Centration
  3. Artificialism
  4. Egocentrism
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Correct answer: D. Egocentrism

1. A key feature of preoperational thought is a focus on the self. 2. The child sees the world only in terms of the child's own self. 3. Not being able to appreciate another's point of view is called **egocentrism** (it is not selfishness). **Why not the others:** Animism and artificialism are ways of explaining causes; centration is focusing on one feature of a problem. _Source: NCERT Class 11 Psychology, Ch 3 "Human Development", section "Cognitive Development", p. 50 (ncert.nic.in/textbook/pdf/kepy103.pdf)_

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Piaget's three mountain task, in which a child judges a doll's view of a model, tests for:

  1. Egocentrism
  2. Conservation
  3. Class inclusion
  4. Seriation
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Correct answer: A. Egocentrism

1. A child sees a model of three mountains, and a doll is placed at another viewpoint. 2. The child must pick the picture that shows what the doll sees. 3. Preoperational children pick their own view, showing they cannot take another's perspective. 4. So the task was designed to test **egocentrism**. **Why not the others:** Conservation, class inclusion and seriation are tested with clay, liquids, counters, groups of objects or sticks, not viewpoints. _Source: Wikipedia, "Three mountain problem", section "introduction" (revision 1344091865)_

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