Psych 333 Test 2 Study Guide: Abnormal Psychology Disorders and Treatment
Review
Piaget believed that the BEST way for children to learn is through - correct answer
✔✔experimenting with the world on their own.
Piaget believed that children of different ages think in _____ ways. - correct answer
✔✔qualitatively different
Accommodation refers to the process by which children - correct answer ✔✔adapt current
knowledge structures in response to new experiences.
Devon has just begun to use objects to stand for other objects. For instance, his current favorite
game is to pretend to play guitar on a toy golf club. Devon is probably in Piaget's _____ stage. -
correct answer ✔✔preoperational
The experiment in which Piaget asks what a doll would see if it were sitting in a chair across the
table from the child was designed to examine - correct answer ✔✔egocentrism.
Dr. Waldron is conducting an experiment and shows a child two clay "sausages" that are
identical in size and shape. He then allows the child to watch as he rolls one of the clay sausages
into a longer, thinner sausage. Dr. Waldron then asks the child whether the two clay sausages
still contain the same amount of clay. A child in Piaget's preoperational stage would be MOST
likely to say - correct answer ✔✔"No, the longer sausage has more clay than the shorter
sausage."
Which statement is NOT true regarding Piaget's theory of cognitive development? - correct
answer ✔✔Piaget's theory overestimates the contribution of the social world to cognitive
development.
Review
Piaget believed that the BEST way for children to learn is through - correct answer
✔✔experimenting with the world on their own.
Piaget believed that children of different ages think in _____ ways. - correct answer
✔✔qualitatively different
Accommodation refers to the process by which children - correct answer ✔✔adapt current
knowledge structures in response to new experiences.
Devon has just begun to use objects to stand for other objects. For instance, his current favorite
game is to pretend to play guitar on a toy golf club. Devon is probably in Piaget's _____ stage. -
correct answer ✔✔preoperational
The experiment in which Piaget asks what a doll would see if it were sitting in a chair across the
table from the child was designed to examine - correct answer ✔✔egocentrism.
Dr. Waldron is conducting an experiment and shows a child two clay "sausages" that are
identical in size and shape. He then allows the child to watch as he rolls one of the clay sausages
into a longer, thinner sausage. Dr. Waldron then asks the child whether the two clay sausages
still contain the same amount of clay. A child in Piaget's preoperational stage would be MOST
likely to say - correct answer ✔✔"No, the longer sausage has more clay than the shorter
sausage."
Which statement is NOT true regarding Piaget's theory of cognitive development? - correct
answer ✔✔Piaget's theory overestimates the contribution of the social world to cognitive
development.
