Tyler is 8 years old. In terms of his thinking, he understands that other people may have different ...

Tyler is 8 years old. In terms of his thinking, he understands that other people may have different perspectives than he does. He can focus on multiple parts of a problem at one time. In all, his thinking is more flexible than it was in the past. Which of Piaget's stages is Tyler in?
 
  a. Preoperations
  b. Decentrations
  c. Concrete operations
  d. Formal operations

Question 2

Phonemes refer only to vowel sounds and morphemes refer only to consonant sounds.
 
  a. True
  b. False
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 3

Sibel is able to add 4 plus 2 and get 6 . She can also subtract 2 from 6 and get 4 . This characteristic of thinking is referred to as
 
  a. egocentrism.
  b. subtractibility.
  c. conservation.
  d. reversibility.

Question 4

Tosha is playing jacks, and each time she bounces a ball she has to pick up one additional jack. She uses private speech as she counts the number of jacks in her head rather than out loud.
 
  a. True
  b. False
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 5

Why do we refer to the characteristics of children's thinking between the ages of 7 and 12 as concrete?
 
  a. Because they are unable to change the ways in which they think
  b. Because their thinking has to do with tangible objects, not abstract concepts
  c. Because they refuse to listen to parents and teachers
  d. Because they believe that theirs is the only point of view of the world.