ACTUAL EXAM PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
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◉ conserve. Answer: realizing that amounts are the same regardless
of their appearance.
◉ Between 2-6 years. Answer: At what age are children in the
Preoperational stage?
◉ Piaget's Preoperational stage of cognitive development. Answer: -
symbolic representation especially during pretend/make-believe
play
-not yet capable of performing mental "operations".
-intuitive thinking (rather than following logical steps)
-Egocentric
◉ Egocentrism. Answer: Being unable to literally adopt another's
point-of-view.
◉ Assimilation. Answer: When we can fit something new into an
existing schema.
,◉ Accommodation. Answer: When something new cannot be
assimilated into an existing schema; either modify the schema or
form a new schema.
◉ Assimilation and Accommodation. Answer: What constitutes the
process of adaptation?
◉ It is how they learn about themselves and the world through
interactions with their bodies and the environment.. Answer: Why
do babies and children form schemas?
◉ Conservation. Answer: The cognitive ability to understand that
objects or substances retain their properties of #'s or amount even
when their appearance, shape, or configuration changes.
◉ 1. Inborn reflexes
2. Primary Circular reactions
3. Secondary circular reactions
4. Coordination or reactions
5. Tertiary circular reaction
6. Earl representational thought. Answer: What are the substages of
Piaget's sensorimotor stage?
, ◉ Birth to 2 years old. Answer: At what age are children in the
sensory-motor stage?
◉ -They learn through environmental input they receive through
their sense, motor actions they engage in, and through feedback they
receive from their bodies and the environment about their actions.
-Learn through repeated experiences.. Answer: What do children in
the sensorimotor stage learn?
◉ If they search for the object after it is moved or hidden.. Answer:
What is a sign that a child has developed object permanence?
◉ schema. Answer: Mental constructs or concepts that represent
elements of the environment in categories or classes of things.
◉ object permanence. Answer: The idea that things continue to exist
even when they are out of sight.
◉ -Ability to think logically
-Trouble understanding abstract concepts or hypothetical situations
-Apply logical sequence and cause and effect to things they can see,
feel, and manipulate.
-Can conserve
-Develop proficiency in inductive logic