Question

When one-year-old Peter is given peas for the first time, he picks one up, throws it off the high chair tray and says, “Ball.” According to Piaget's theory, he is most likely _________________ the pea to his 'ball' scheme.

	A.	Accommodating.
	B.	Adapting.
	C.	Assimilating.
	D.	Acclimating.
	E.	None of the above.

According to Piaget's stage theory of cognitive development ____.

1. The stages children pass through occur in an invariant series.

2. Within a given culture, the stages happen at different ages in different children.

3. The stages characterize an entire suite of abilities, so that once the child manifests the new ability in one arena of activity, they will do so in many others as well.

4. Children can skip stages.

	A.	Only 1 and 3.
	B.	Only 2 and 4.
	C.	Only 3.
	D.	Only 1, 2 and 3.
	E.	None of these choices.

Freud's theory of psychosexual development focuses on ____, in contrast to Piaget's, which focuses on ____.

1. The development of sex and gender identity; The development of the thought process.

2. Male Genetics envy in girls; The superior capacity for thought in boys.

3. The resolution of emotional conflicts; The active construction of mental concepts.

4. Personality development through rational discourse; Resolution of the fallacy of instruction.

	A.	Only 1 and 3
	B.	Only 2 and 4.
	C.	Only 3.
	D.	Only 1, 2 and 3.
	E.	None of these choices.

A paradoxical feature of stage-based theories of development is that they ____.

	A.	Assume that cognitive progression is routinely associated with emotional regression.
	B.	Predict that movement from one stage to another involves temporary loss of some existent abilities.
	C.	Focus on the way in which qualitative changes lead to quantitative changes.
	D.	All of the above.
	E.	None of the above.

Piaget's constructivist theory of knowledge postulates that ____.

1. Children create ideas, such as conservation, which they use to understand the world-at-large.

2. Children discover facts as they explore the world-at-large, which they generalize as concepts.

3. Ideas such as conservation do not exist in the world-at-large, but only in human minds.

4. Ideas such as conservation are formed by the internalization of observations of patterns

	A.	Only 1 and 3.
	B.	Only 2 and 4.
	C.	Only 3.
	D.	Only 1, 2 and 3.
	E.	None of these choices.

Answer 1

Answer: C. Assimilating

Explanation: Assimilating occurs when children modify or change new information to fit into their schemas from what we already know.

Answer: Only 3. The stages characterize an entire suite of abilities so that once the child manifests the new ability in one arena of activity, they will do so in many others as well.

Answer: A. Only 1 and 3

Explanation: Freud focuses on the ego and id, and Piaget's on children's cognitive development.

Answer: C. Focus on the way in which qualitative changes lead to quantitative changes.

Explanation: this is the paradox in itself because qualitative leads to quantitative.

Answer: A. Only 1 and 3