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Piaget placed the concrete operational stage between which ages?Read the answer and worked solution →Which stage involves abstract, hypothetical reasoning?Read the answer and worked solution →Egocentrism in a preoperational child means the child cannot do what?Read the answer and worked solution →Piaget and Inhelder used the three mountain problem to show which limit of young children?Read the answer and worked solution →A child says the sidewalk was angry and made her fall. Piaget called this belief what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which term means knowing that changing how something looks does not change its basic properties?Read the answer and worked solution →A child focuses on only one feature of a situation and ignores all others. Piaget called this what?Read the answer and worked solution →A five-year-old does not see that pouring the water back would restore the first amount. This limit is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →A child cannot infer A > C from A > B and B > C. Which skill is lacking?Read the answer and worked solution →What is assimilation in Piaget's theory?Read the answer and worked solution →Piaget added which fourth factor to maturation, experience and the social environment?Read the answer and worked solution →Disequilibrium occurs when a child meets what?Read the answer and worked solution →Playing house or holding a tea party is an example of which kind of play?Read the answer and worked solution →Which age range is given for the intuitive thought substage?Read the answer and worked solution →A concrete operational child arranges sticks in order of length. Which skill is shown?Read the answer and worked solution →Which ability, the opposite of centration, allows conservation to occur?Read the answer and worked solution →Which kind of problem can a concrete operational child solve?Read the answer and worked solution →A child knows that if 2 + 3 = 5 then 5 - 3 = 2. Which skill does this show?Read the answer and worked solution →Which form of reasoning do concrete operational children find difficult?Read the answer and worked solution →Which reasoning uses what-if thinking in the formal stage?Read the answer and worked solution →Metacognition emerges in which Piagetian stage?Read the answer and worked solution →An adolescent feels everyone is watching the way they look. Which idea fits this?Read the answer and worked solution →A teen believes that bad things cannot happen to them because they are special. Which idea is this?Read the answer and worked solution →At the Binet school, what did Piaget notice about children?Read the answer and worked solution →Why do children of different ages err differently, per Piaget?Read the answer and worked solution →Piaget's theory is mainly known as what kind of theory?Read the answer and worked solution →Which method helps learners face schema contradictions?Read the answer and worked solution →Which criticism is made of Piaget's theory about the role of culture?Read the answer and worked solution →What does décalage suggest about Piaget's stage model?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these does Piaget's figurative intelligence involve?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Piaget placed the concrete operational stage between which ages?

  1. 2 and 7 years
  2. 5 and 9 years
  3. 7 and 11 years
  4. 11 and 15 years
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Correct answer: C. 7 and 11 years

1. The concrete operational stage is the third stage. 2. It follows the preoperational stage and covers ages 7 to 11. 3. Ages 11 to 15 fit the formal operational stage. _Source: Wikipedia, Piaget's theory of cognitive development, Concrete operational stage_

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Which stage involves abstract, hypothetical reasoning?

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

1. Abstract and hypothetical reasoning needs logic that works on ideas, not only on objects. 2. Piaget placed this in the formal operational stage, from about age 11. 3. The concrete operational stage handles only real objects and events. _Source: Wikipedia, Piaget's theory of cognitive development, Formal operational stage_

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Egocentrism in a preoperational child means the child cannot do what?

  1. Remember past events
  2. Speak in full sentences
  3. See another person's view
  4. Count objects in a row
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Correct answer: C. See another person's view

1. Egocentrism is not selfishness but a thinking limit. 2. The child sticks to their own viewpoint and cannot tell it apart from another person's. 3. Memory, speech and counting are not what this term describes. _Source: Wikipedia, Piaget's theory of cognitive development, Symbolic function substage_

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