Sensorimotor Stage
Alexis’s mom gives her a bottle of apple juice. Alexis pours the apple juice into a glass that is shorter and wider than the bottle the apple juice came in. Even though it looks like there is less juice in the glass, Alexis knows the amount of juice is still the same. What did Piaget call the ability to understand that the amount remains the same even when its appearance changes?
Natalie bakes her mom a birthday cake as a surprise. The cake is very dense and flat. Natalie thinks about the cake ingredients and what she might have done wrong. She bakes the cake again the same way except that this time she makes sure to add the right amount of baking powder. What did Piaget call this ability to apply scientific thinking to cognitive tasks?
Chad's mom has two balls of clay the same size and she flattens one ball into a pancake shape. Chad's mom asks him which has more clay: the pancake or the ball. Chad points to the clay pancake. Which of Piaget's stages of cognitive development is Chad in?
April tries to feed oatmeal to her doll. April thinks her doll is sad because the doll is hungry. What did Piaget call it when children in the preoperational stage attribute human thoughts and feelings to inanimate objects?
Tom's teacher gives him 3 plastic cows and 7 plastic horses. The teacher asks Tom if there are more horses or more animals and Tom responds that there are more animals. Which of Piaget's stages of cognitive development is Tom in?
Preoperational Stage
Formal Operations Stage
Valerie has learned to eat mashed potatoes with a spoon. When Valerie's mom gives Valerie a bowl of chocoate pudding -- even though the pudding looks different -- Valerie picks up her spoon and eats the pudding using the same scheme as she did to eat the mashed potatoes. What did Piaget called the ability to alter new information to fit an existing scheme?
Concrete Operations Stage
Ginny is enjoying playing with her ball and it rolls under the sofa. Ginny does not look for the ball. Piaget would say that Ginny's seeming lack of awareness that the ball continues to exist even though it is out of sight is called?
When asked what would happen if no one ever died, Martin responds that – if no person’s life ever ended – that the value we place on life would be diminished. (Three years ago when Martin was asked the same question, he responded that we would run out of space for new houses and apartments for people to live in.) Which of Piaget's stages of cognitive development is Martin in?
Juli is primarily interested in the playing with her blocks by banging them on the floor, kicking them with her feet, and chewing on the corners of the blocks. Which of Piaget's stages of cognitive development is Juli in?
animism
Paul takes a toy train from Tim that Tim was playing with. Paul is not yet able to think about Tim’s viewpoint (how Tim might feel when the train is taken away). Which of Piaget's stages of cognitive development is Paul in?
hypothetical-deductive reasoning
Formal Operations Stage
Preoperational Stage
Sensorimotor Stage
Bob is taller than has friend, Josh. Josh tells Bob that Josh is taller than his sister, Lyric. Bob realizes, even though he has not met her, that he is taller than Lyric. Which of Piaget's stages of cognitive development is Bob in?
Steven cannot yet use language or form mental images of objects he has seen like the toy truck he left at his grandmother's house last week. Which of PIaget's stages of cognitive development is Steven in?
assimilation
Concrete Operations Stage
conservation
a lack of object permanence
John is capable of thinking about abstractions like comparing the different types of love: for parents, friends, romantic partner. Which of Piaget's stages of cognitive development is John in?
