Five-Year-Old Matthew Asks Many Questions About the Recent Death of His

question 66

Multiple Choice

Five-year-old Matthew asks many questions about the recent death of his grandmother. Kastenbaum would say that he is

• A) too cognitively immature to understand separation and loss.
• B) concerned about loss and separation and striving to understand death.
• C) emotionally unable to deal with the finality of death.
• D) trying to learn how he can remedy the circumstances.

Explain the processes of primary and secondary circular reactions in the sensorimotor stage.

Understand the cognitive shift from sensorimotor to preoperational stages in child development.

Define and identify examples of conservation and centration in cognitive development.

Recognize the development of logical thinking during the concrete operational stage.

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