Florida International University

EDP 3004

Chapter 2

1)Children in the concrete operational stage have the understanding of space well enough to do which of the following?

2. The formal operational stage emerges:

3. Continuous theories of development assume that development occurs:

4. Piaget's theory of cognitive development proposes that:

5. An example of the Vygotsky notion of scaffolding would be:

6. Ramona is a first year teacher. She prepared tirelessly all summer for a fifth-grade position. As school approached she learned the fifth-grade position was eliminated and instead she would fill a first-grade position. Ramona knows in order to be an effective teacher she will most need to:

7. Piaget believed that children are born with an innate tendency to make sense of their own environments by creating:

8. Which of the following is most likely to help a concrete operational child solve conceptual problems?

9. You are teaching a tenth-grade class of average ability students. Your lesson involves abstract ideas. Which of the following would be the most accurate supposition you could make about your class as you plan activities?

10. During the preoperational stage, children have the ability to do which of the following?

11. Which of the following cognitive characteristics explains the difficulty preoperational children have with the beaker of water problem (conservation of volume)?

12. Discontinuous theories of development focus on:

13. Symbols that cultures create to help people think, communicate and solve problems are referred to as:

14. The abilities that make up formal operational thought include:

15. Seriation, an important task child learn during the concrete operational stage, is characterized by which ability?

16. In the formal operational stage, the preadolescent is beginning to think:

17. Early literacy developments depend on:

18. Mr. Nicely often begins his lectures by presenting students with two ideas or observations that apparently conflict. He feels this method of presenting a paradox arouses students' interest. From Piaget's point of view, the teacher is making use of his students' natural response to:

19. Which cognitive characteristic is Athena showing when she plays hide and seek and pulls the drape over her head with the rest of her body showing believing no one will see her?

20. Sometimes, when old ways of dealing with the world simply don't work, a child might modify an existing scheme in light of new information or a new experience. This is a process called:

21. Dahlia's toy is covered by a blanket, but the child does not remove the blanket to look for the toy because he believes the toy is gone. This scenario shows an infant's inability to grasp which idea?

22. Max, a preschooler, explains that a sandwich cut into four pieces is more than a sandwich cut in half, demonstrating which characteristic common in the preoperational stage?

23. Which of the following best describes Piaget's idea of disequilibrium?

24. Transitivity involves the ability to:

25. The importance of the bio ecological approach is in emphasizing:

26. From Vygotsky's viewpoint, which would be the best description of developmentally appropriate activities?

27. Nurture has a greater effect than nature on the following domain of development:

28. Piaget described cognitive development as a sequence of stages. Which of the following represents his stages in developmental order?

29. Piaget's view of cognitive development as a process in which children actively build systems of meaning and understanding of reality through their experience and interactions is known as:

30. Two-year-old Lizzie encounters a squirrel and calls it "mouse." Which of Piaget's terms best describes her thinking?