In Piaget’s classification system, the child learns language and the logic of classification and numbers during which period?

A. Sensorimotor
B. Latency
C. Formal operations
D. Concrete operation

According to Piaget, the ability to ‘think like a scientist’ is characteristic of which of the following developmental stages?

A. Preoperational
B. Sensorimotor
C. Formal operational
D. Post-conventional

According to Piaget, a child who is confident that the quantity of milk is a glass does not change when it is poured into a glass of different shape is probably _________________?

A. Between 3 and 5 years old
B. Able to conserve volume
C. In the preoperational stage of cognitive development
D. Engaging in egocentric patterns of play

The term congenital means ______________?

A. Genetic
B. Present at birth
C. Embryonic
D. Recessive characteristic

The processes of growth and development are ______________?

A. Constant
B. Continuous
C. Slow
D. Both b and c

The children’s game of ‘peak-a-boo’ centers around which of the following developmental concepts?

A. Schema
B. Conservation
C. Formal operational
D. Object permanence

What is produced by tactile stimulation of a newborn’s cheek?

A. Babkin response
B. Rooting response
C. Moro response
D. Grasping response

Who most stressed the importance of maturation in development?

A. Jean piaget
B. John locke
C. Arnold gesell
D. Lev vygotsky

Within the human embryo, activity related to the development of hair and nails is centered in the ____________?

A. Mesoderm
B. Endoderm
C. Exoderm
D. Ectoderm

According to Piaget, children who can think symbolically about absent objects and can appreciate the stable properties of those objects, but cannot think logically about actions that produce change, are at the__________ stage?

A. Formal-operational
B. Concrete-operational
C. Preoperational
D. Sensorimotor