PHASE IDENTIFICATION PRACTICE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FULL
RESOURCE
●● 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.