Daryl has a ball of Silly Putty. His 6-year-old son, John, watches as Daryl flattens the Silly Putty into a thin pancake. When Daryl asks John if there is now more Silly Putty, John replies, Yes. Piaget would say that John has
demonstrated scaffolding.
not mastered the concept of conservation.
an understanding of object permanence.
demonstrated fast-mapping.
Question 2The inability to understand the Piagetian concept of conservation is a direct and most immediate result of
lack of intelligence.
centration.
egocentrism.
irreversibility.
Question 3Krista understands that 4 + 6 = 10 but does not understand that 10 6 = 4. She is displaying
irreversibility.
centration.
egocentrism.
animism.
Question 4Four-year-old Jon is sitting at the lunch counter next to his sister Erin. They are having hotdogs for lunch. Mom cuts Jon's hotdog into five pieces and Erin's into six pieces.
Jon protests because Erin has more than me Which of the following abilities does Jon not yet
demonstrate?
logic
centration
egocentrism
conservation
Question 5Failure to understand that undoing a sequence of events will bring about the original conditions or situation is called
concrete operations.
conservation.
irreversibility.
symbolic thought.
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