EDF- Chapter 6 Exam Questions And
Answers 2025 Update.
Larger systems of mental processes are known as:
- Operations
- Schemes
- Constructive processes
- Scripts - Answer✔Operations
Which one of the following statements best describes Piaget's view of how children acquire
knowledge about the world?
- Children repeatedly parrot their parents' and teachers' beliefs, eventually internalizing these
beliefs as their own "knowledge."
- Children are naturally disposed to think about their environment in particular ways; in a sense,
some basic knowledge about the world is "pre-wired."
- Children actively construct their own view of the world from their experiences with the
environment.
- Initially, children unconsciously develop a rather complex and confused view of the world, but
this view becomes simpler and more straightforward as time goes on. - Answer✔Children
actively construct their own view of the world from their experiences with the environment.
In Piaget's theory, a scheme can best be described as:
- A set of motor skills that preschoolers develop
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- A mental picture of oneself
- A lifestyle or family pattern
- An organized group of similar thoughts or actions - Answer✔An organized group of similar
thoughts or actions
Which of the following is not a concept described by Piaget?
- Zone of proximal development
- Scheme
- Accommodation
- Assimilation - Answer✔Zone of proximal development
Louis receives a new soccer ball and begins to dribble it in the same way he dribbles his
basketball. His dribbling of the new ball reflects Piaget's concept of:
- Accommodation
- Assimilation
- Concrete operations
- Equilibration - Answer✔Assimilation
Which one of the following best illustrates Piaget's concept of accommodation?
- Donna copies her biology textbook's definitions of various classes of invertebrates (sponges,
flatworms, mollusks, etc.) word for word in her notebook.
- Anne copies down what her teacher writes on the blackboard.
- Betsy is given 10 more addition problems when she does the first 10 carelessly.
- Carol revises her understanding of what clouds are like when she studies them in science. -
Answer✔Carol revises her understanding of what clouds are like when she studies them in
science.
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