According to Piaget's cognitive-developmental theory, learning involves children:
a. receiving information passively.
b. learning information that is imposed by teachers.
c. actively discovering.
d. learning information that is beyond their developmental level.
Question 2Injecting women at risk for delivering preterm babies with ____ increases the babies' chances for survival and lowers their risk of respiratory distress syndrome and severe lung disease.
a. corticosteroids c. folic acid
b. Vitamin K d. a local anesthetic
Question 3Class inclusion is:
a. the ability to focus on subclasses and a larger class at the same time.
b. the ability to put things in sequence based upon one characteristic.
c. the ability to think about objects that are not currently present.
d. the ability to reverse one's thinking.
Question 4Maggie and Ben's preterm baby has been diagnosed as having respiratory distress syndrome. Which of the following is true regarding respiratory distress syndrome?
a. It is due to maternal exposure to teratogens during pregnancy.
b. The baby's muscles may not be mature enough to sustain independent breathing.
c. The air sacs in the baby's lungs are over-lubricated, making breathing difficult.
d. It is due to anoxia during delivery.
Question 5Understanding that dogs can also belong in the category called animals is an example of:
a. linear thinking. c. abstract logic.
b. class inclusion. d. a preoperation.
Question 6What is respiratory distress syndrome?
a. a cluster of breathing problems likely to affect premature infants
b. a breathing disorder mothers sometimes develop during pregnancy
c. a breathing disorder likely to affect high birth weight infants
d. a breathing disorder that sometimes develops in infants during delivery
Question 7Which of the following statements is true of concrete operational children?
a. They can only focus on one aspect of a problem at a time.
b. They have gained the ability to think with abstract logic.
c. They can work with multiple cognitive dimensions at the same time.
d. They are more egocentric than preoperational.
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