Piaget's Thinking on Cognitive Development May Have Been Influenced By

question 104

Multiple Choice

Piaget's thinking on cognitive development may have been influenced by:

• A)Beck's attempts to understand the role of cognitive distortions in the development of emotional problems.
• B)Ellis' claim that cognitive abilities can be explained by the accumulation of past experiences.
• C)Broughton's experiments on how children thought about and solved problems.
• D)Baldwin's identification of stages in early development.

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Definitions:

Piaget's Stages

A theory describing the cognitive development of children, segmented into four stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.

Sensorimotor Stage

In Piaget’s theory, the stage (from birth to about 2 years of age) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities.

Concrete Operational

A stage in cognitive development, according to Piaget, where children aged about 7-12 years develop logical thinking but are still not capable of abstract thinking.

Motor Development

The process through which humans progress through a predictable set of movements and physical abilities throughout their lifespan.