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Told that an elephant is not a horse, a boy changes his whole idea of animals. This is:Read the answer and worked solution →Piaget's name for the state of balance between prior ideas and openness to new ones:Read the answer and worked solution →When new information does not fit a child's existing schemes, Piaget says the child is in:Read the answer and worked solution →Besides maturation, experience and social environment, which fourth factor did Piaget add?Read the answer and worked solution →Which statement fits Piaget's idea of stages of cognitive development?Read the answer and worked solution →Piaget's own term for the help and teaching a child receives from other people:Read the answer and worked solution →In Piaget's first stage, infants learn about the world mainly through:Read the answer and worked solution →An older infant searches under a blanket for a toy that was just hidden there. This shows:Read the answer and worked solution →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 →

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Told that an elephant is not a horse, a boy changes his whole idea of animals. This is:

  1. Assimilation
  2. Centration
  3. Accommodation
  4. Conservation
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Correct answer: C. Accommodation

1. The boy first saw the elephant through his existing *horse* scheme. 2. The correction shows the old scheme does not work for this animal (disequilibrium). 3. He resolves it by modifying his animal schema to make room for elephants. 4. Changing the schema itself to fit new information is **accommodation**. 5. Had he kept calling it a horse, that would have been assimilation. **Why not the others:** Assimilation is the trap here: it describes the boy's first reaction, not the change he makes after correction. _Source: Wikipedia, "Piaget's theory of cognitive development", section "Cognitive equilibration" (revision 1379038101)_

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Piaget's name for the state of balance between prior ideas and openness to new ones:

  1. Cognitive dissonance
  2. Cognitive equilibrium
  3. Cognitive overload
  4. Cognitive apprenticeship
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Correct answer: B. Cognitive equilibrium

1. Assimilation and accommodation work together as the child meets new experiences. 2. Piaget called the resulting balance between relying on prior information and staying open to new information **cognitive equilibrium**. 3. The child keeps seeking this balance, which drives development. **Why not the others:** Cognitive dissonance is Festinger's idea, cognitive overload comes from load theory and cognitive apprenticeship is a Vygotsky-inspired teaching model. _Source: Seifert and Sutton, Educational Psychology, 2nd ed. (2009, CC BY 3.0), Ch 2, section "Psychological constructivism: the independent investigator", p. 34_

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When new information does not fit a child's existing schemes, Piaget says the child is in:

  1. Egocentrism
  2. Centration
  3. Conservation
  4. Disequilibrium
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Correct answer: D. Disequilibrium

1. Piaget held that children try to keep their schemes in balance (equilibrium). 2. Information that does not fit the existing schemes upsets this balance. 3. Piaget called this unsettled state **disequilibrium**; the child then assimilates, accommodates or ignores the information to restore balance. **Why not the others:** Egocentrism and centration are limits of preoperational thought, not the state caused by a misfit of information. _Source: Wikipedia, "Piaget's theory of cognitive development", section "Cognitive equilibration" (revision 1379038101)_

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