Piaget True/False

According to Piaget, children do not want to make sense of their experiences

FALSE

Smart children can skip one of Piaget's stages

FALSE

Preoperational children typically believe that others see the world exactly as they do, both literally and figuratively, a concept known as egocentrism.

TRUE

Some children move through the stages more rapidly than others, depending on their ability and experiences.

TRUE

According to Piaget, infants are born with object permanence, the ability to understand that objects exist independently.

FALSE

Before Piaget, cognition was well studied by other child-development scientists; Piaget just built on their research.

FALSE

Concrete operational thinking is identical to adult thinking in that children are able to think abstractly and hypothetically for the first time.

FALSE

Preoperational children are able to juggle multiple aspects of a problem at the same time, thus correcting the centration that is seen in the sensorimotor stage.

FALSE

According to Piaget, cognitive development occurs in four stages

FALSE (8 stages)

One of the weaknesses of Piaget's theory is that it overestimates cognitive competence in infants and young children and underestimates cognitive competence in adolescents.

FALSE (It's the opposite of what was stated)

A weakness of Piaget's theory is that is doesn't take into consideration the kinds of cognitive skills valued in an individual's culture-and the influence education has on whether or not individuals reach the formal reasoning stage.

TRUE

According to Piaget, adolescents and adults acquire more knowledge as they grow older, but their fundamental way of thinking remains unchanged

TRUE

Common symbols used by children in the preoperational stage include words and gestures.

TRUE

Concrete operational children are able to reverse their thinking, which allows them to perform conservation tasks that preoperational children cannot.

TRUE

Educational applications of Piaget's theory include facilitating rather than directing children's learning, sensitivity to children's readiness to learn, and emphasis on discovery learning.

TRUE

For Piaget, children at all ages are like scientists in that they create theories about how the world works.

TRUE

Formal operational thinkers can envision alternate realities and examine their consequences. They can create hypotheses and test them.

TRUE

One of Piaget's greatest contributions to teaching was constructivism, the view that children are active participants in their own development

TRUE