Multiple Choice QuestionsPiaget proposes that pre-operational children are unable to conserve. He attributes this inability to which one of the following factors?
Inability of hypothetico-deductive reasoning
Lack of high-level abstract reasoning
Personal fable
Irreversibility of thought
D.
Irreversibility of thought
In the pre-operational stage, children engage in make-believe and can understand and express relationships between the past and the future. There are three main characteristics of the pre-operational stage of a child's cognitive development- egocentrism, centration and irreversibility. Irreversibility refers to the inability of a child to realise that an action is done and undone.
What is a major criticism of Kohlberg's theory?
Kohlberg proposed a theory without any empirical basis
Kohlberg did not give clear cut stages of moral development
Kohlberg proposed that moral reasoning is developmental
Kohlberg did not account for cultural differences in moral reasoning of men and women
Which one of the following statements best summarizes the relationship between development and learning as proposed by Vygotsky?
Development is independent of learning
Learning and development are parallel processes
Development process lags behind the learning process
Development is synonymous with learning
A major difference between the perspectives of Vygotsky and Piaget pertains to
their critique of behaviouristic principles
their conception of children as active constructors of knowledge
the role of providing a nurturing environment to children
their views about language and thought
The amount and type of scaffolding to a child would change depending on the
mood of the teacher
child's innate abilities
rewards offered for the task
level of the child's performance
What term/phrase does Piaget use for 'mental structures which are the building blocks of thinking'?
Gene
Maturation blocks
Schemas
Zones of development
According to Vygotsky why do children speak to themselves?
Children use their speech to attract the attention of adults to them
Children are very talkative by nature
Children are egocentric
Children use speech to guide their actions
Development of the capacity for abstract scientific thinking is a characteristic of
concrete operational stage
formal operational stage
sensorimotor stage
pre-operational stage
A child reasons 'You do this for me and I'll do that for you.' In which stage of Kohlberg's moral reasoning would this child fall?
The 'good boy-good girl' orientation
The social-contract orientation
The instrumental purpose orientation
The punishment and obedience orientation
Which one of the following statements best sums up the relationship between development and learning?
Development is independent of learning
Learning trails behind development
Learning and development are synonymous terms
Learning and development are inter-related in a complex manner
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