Both Piaget and Kohlberg believed that children's moral reasoning undergoes the same cognitive developmental pattern around the world and
a. is complete by age 12.
b. reflects the values of the social and cultural setting in which the child is raised.
c. develops in a continuous, rather than a stage-like, manner.
d. is unrelated to their ability to take the perspective of another.
Question 2Isaac and Larry, two young brothers, are sitting at the breakfast table when their father gives them both a glass of chocolate milk. Isaac's glass is taller but thinner than Larry's glass, which is shorter but wider. Larry gets upset and complains that Isaac got more milk The fact that Larry is only focusing on one feature of his milk glass demonstrates the Piagetian concept of
a. accommodation.
b. egocentrism.
c. reversion.
d. centration.
Question 3Children develop problem-solving abilities relative to mass, weight, and volume at different ages. This finding suggests that
a. children are preoperational longer than previously thought.
b. children develop conservations skills earlier than Piaget believed.
c. conservation does not appear in children's thinking all at once.
d. seriation does not appear in children's thinking all at once.
Question 4The preoperational concept of ____ suggests that children in this stage believe that others see the world exactly as they do; that is, that their perspective is the only perspective there is.
a. animism
b. centration
c. egocentrism
d. object permanence
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