Take the Quiz – Piaget and Children

Piaget was Swiss a biologist and psychologist who developed his theories based on observation of his children.

When a child does not have a schema, he creates a new schema and this process is called ______________

When a child adds new information to an existing schema, the process is called _______________

 A schema is like a file which contains information the child already knows and gains more schemas when the child grows.

A child groups the word ‘chair’ and ‘table’ into the schema called furniture. Then she is introduced to the word ‘apple’ and does not group in the ‘furniture’ schema and instead creates a new schema for ‘fruits’. What is this process called?

Cognition means to ____________

Which stage of cognitive development is WRONG?

At which stage of cognitive development is the child most likely to be ‘egocentric’?

A child who is unable to take the viewpoint of another person is described as ___________

At the concrete operational stage (6 t0 11 years), the child gains the ability of ‘reversibility’ which is ____________ 

At the concrete operational stage (6 to 11 years) the child is able to arrange a number of sticks according to length and this is ability of called ____________

According to Piaget, at which stage are children capable of abstract thinking?

What is being tested when a child is given conservation task?

Which of the following are applications of Piaget’s theory in teaching and learning?

When a child gets a wrong answer, get the child to think why the answer is wrong. What was Piaget emphasising?