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Test Bank for Development Throughout the Lifespan 7th Edition By Berk

CHAPTER 5
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN INFANCY AND TODDLERHOOD

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. Jean Piaget’s cognitive-developmental theory was influenced by his background in .
A) biology
B) psychology
C) physics
D) sociology

Answer: A
Page Ref: 150
Skill Level: Remember
Objective: 5.1 According to Piaget, how do schemes change over the course of development?
Topic: Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental Theory
Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Piaget believed that infants and toddlers .
A) carry out many activities inside their heads
B) ―think‖ with their eyes, ears, and hands
C) assimilate more than they accommodate
D) are incapable of constructing schemes

Answer: B
Page Ref: 150
Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 5.1 According to Piaget, how do schemes change over the course of development?
Topic: Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental Theory
Difficulty Level: Moderate

3. According to cognitive-developmental theory, a scheme is .
A) an internal process that occurs apart from any contact with the environment
B) the understanding that objects continue to exist when out of sight
C) the ability to copy the behavior of others
D) an organized way of making sense of experience

Answer: D
Page Ref: 150
Skill Level: Remember
Objective: 5.1 According to Piaget, how do schemes change over the course of development?
Topic: Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental Theory
Difficulty Level: Moderate

4. Six-month-old Eva dropped her teething ring in a fairly rigid way, simply letting go and watching it
with interest. This example demonstrates Piaget’s belief that, at first, schemes are .


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A) sensorimotor action patterns
B) deliberate and creative
C) preoperational thought
D) disorganized and random

Answer: A
Page Ref: 150
Skill Level: Apply
Objective: 5.1 According to Piaget, how do schemes change over the course of development?
Topic: Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental Theory
Difficulty Level: Difficult

5. According to Piaget, adaptation involves .
A) creating new schemes
B) using our current schemes to interpret the external world
C) building schemes through direct interaction with the environment
D) adjusting old schemes after noticing that our current ways of thinking are not working

Answer: C
Page Ref: 150
Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 5.1 According to Piaget, how do schemes change over the course of development?
Topic: Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental Theory
Difficulty Level: Moderate

6. Baby Olivia dropped her rattle. Later, she let go of her teething ring and watched with interest. When
Olivia dropped objects, she was them to her sensorimotor dropping scheme.
A) accommodating
B) equalizing
C) organizing
D) assimilating

Answer: D
Page Ref: 150
Skill Level: Apply
Objective: 5.1 According to Piaget, how do schemes change over the course of development?
Topic: Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental Theory
Difficulty Level: Difficult

7. Two-year-old Laura dropped a block into her toy box. She then dropped a cup, a car, and a doll—some
gently, and some with force. Laura’s modification of her dropping scheme is an example of .
A) equilibrium
B) organization
C) accommodation
D) assimilation




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Answer: C
Page Ref: 150
Skill Level: Apply
Objective: 5.1 According to Piaget, how do schemes change over the course of development?
Topic: Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental Theory
Difficulty Level: Difficult

8. When children are not changing much cognitively, they more than they .
A) accommodate; organize
B) organize; assimilate
C) assimilate; accommodate
D) organize; adapt

Answer: C
Page Ref: 150
Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 5.1 According to Piaget, how do schemes change over the course of development?
Topic: Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental Theory
Difficulty Level: Moderate

9. During times of rapid cognitive change, children
A) are in a state of disequilibrium
B) assimilate more than they accommodate
C) are likely to construct inefficient schemes
D) balance assimilation and accommodation

Answer: A
Page Ref: 150
Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 5.1 According to Piaget, how do schemes change over the course of development?
Topic: Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental Theory
Difficulty Level: Moderate

10. In Piaget’s theory, each time the back-and-forth movement between equilibrium and disequilibrium
occurs, .
A) children temporarily regress to a previous stage
B) less effective schemes are produced
C) children adapt more than they organize
D) more effective schemes are produced

Answer: D
Page Ref: 150
Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 5.1 According to Piaget, how do schemes change over the course of development?
Topic: Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental Theory
Difficulty Level: Moderate



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11. Piaget’s stage is the most complex period of development.
A) sensorimotor
B) preoperational
C) concrete operational
D) formal operational

Answer: A
Page Ref: 150
Skill Level: Remember
Objective: 5.1 According to Piaget, how do schemes change over the course of development?
Topic: Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental Theory
Difficulty Level: Easy

12. Apart from direct contact with the environment, schemes also change through .
A) organization
B) circular motion
C) deferred imitation
D) heredity

Answer: A
Page Ref: 150
Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 5.1 According to Piaget, how do schemes change over the course of development?
Topic: Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental Theory
Difficulty Level: Moderate

13. Piaget based the substages of sensorimotor development on .
A) interviews with parents and children
B) observations of a large sample of young children
C) observations of his own three children
D) field experiments with toddlers and preschoolers

Answer: C
Page Ref: 151
Skill Level: Remember
Objective: 5.1 According to Piaget, how do schemes change over the course of development?
Topic: Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental Theory
Difficulty Level: Moderate

14. A is a means of building schemes in which infants try to repeat chance motor behaviors
again and again.
A) sensorimotor reflex
B) circular reaction
C) mental representation
D) goal-directed behavior



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