Piaget's sensorimotor stage is characterized by:
a. The beginnings of conservation
b. Basic schemes for dealing with abstract ideas
c. Schemes based primarily on perceptions and behaviors
d. Inaccurate mental representations of the physical and biological world
Ques. 2In Piaget's theory, a scheme can best be described as:
a. A mental picture of oneself
b. A general lifestyle or cultural pattern
c. A set of motor skills that preschoolers develop
d. An organized group of similar thoughts or actions
Ques. 3According to Piaget, three of the following are essential for cognitive development. Which one is not?
a. Brain maturation
b. High self-esteem
c. Interaction with other people
d. Interaction with the physical environment
Ques. 4Which one of the following best describes Piaget's notion of equilibration?
a. A child assimilates without accommodating.
b. A child doesn't encounter any new or challenging ideas.
c. A child revises existing schemes to better understand new phenomenon.
d. A child has difficulty explaining new events using existing schemes.
Ques. 5From a propositional network perspective of long-term memory, meaningful learning is best described as a process of:
a. Modifying the arguments of existing propositions
b. Modifying the relations of existing propositions
c. Connecting one or more new propositions to the network
d. Hierarchically organizing existing propositions within the network
Ques. 6Four-year-old Kristen was asked if her mother's friend Jennifer was her aunt. Kristen responded: yes, because she is a female adult who loves me and comes to my house for Thanksgiving. Kristen was not able to identify that Jennifer is a_______________ of aunts.
a. correlational feature
b. defining feature
c. positive instance
d. negative instance
Ques. 7Four-year-old Becky is playing with blocks, stacking them one on top of another until her towers eventually tumble, and then stacking the blocks again. Which one of the following best reflects Piaget's view of how Becky is probably learning in this situation?
a. Because she is probably still in the sensorimotor stage, she will remember what she learns about the blocks only while the blocks are still in front of her.
b. She is absorbing information about how the environment behaves (e.g., objects fall) without consciously thinking about it.
c. She is actively thinking about and interpreting the results of her actions.
d. Because she builds one tower after another, she is obviously reinforced by watching her towers tumble down.
Ques. 8Corey understands the general meanings of 20 new vocabulary words, but to prepare for an upcoming quiz, he also memorizes the specific definitions his teacher has provided on a study guide. Two weeks later, he is given a surprise quiz on those vocabulary words. Considering research findings described in the text, we would expect that Corey:
a. Can still remember all the definitions verbatim
b. Can define the general meaning most of the vocabulary words but cannot necessarily remember the original definitions verbatim
c. Can recognize the vocabulary words he studied but cannot define them
d. Can recognize only about 25 of the vocabulary words he studied
Ques. 9A well-known nursery rhyme (e.g., Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall . . . ) is most likely to be stored in long-term memory as one or more:
a. productions
b. propositions
c. verbal codes
d. images
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