Cognitive Development Piaget

Question 1

What age is a child in the Concrete Operations stage?

Answer 1

school aged child from ages 7-11

Question 2

What age is a child in the Formal Operations Stage

Answer 2

12 years and on

Question 3

Name either formal or concrete operations stage?

Use thought processes to experience events and actions

Answer 3

Concrete

Question 4

Abstract thinking including logic, deductive reasoning, comparison and classification

Answer 4

Formal operations

Question 5

Mental manipulation of multiple variables

Answer 5

Formal operations

Question 6

Develop understanding of relationships between things and ideas

Answer 6

Concrete Operations

Question 7

Able to make judgments based on reason

Answer 7

“concrete thinking”

concrete operations

Question 8

Think beyond present

Answer 8

formal operations

Question 9

concerned about others thoughts and needs

Answer 9

formal operations

Question 10

Understand the concepts of decentration, conservation, seriation, classification and reversibility

Answer 10

concrete operations

Question 11

Choose between decentration, conservation, seriation, classification and reversibility for next questions:
Ability to sequence in order i.e. from smallest to largest

Answer 11

seriation

Question 12

ability to mentally reverse an action

Answer 12

reversibility

Question 13

ability to focus on more than one aspect of a situation

Answer 13

decentration

Question 14

ability to group objects based on common characteristics

Answer 14

classification

Question 15

recognition that some aspects of objects remain the same despite changes in appearance (i.e. a broken cookie is still a whole cookie even though it is in several difference pieces)

Answer 15

conservation