According to Piaget's Cognitive-Developmental Theory, Why Should Students Wait Until

question 118

Multiple Choice

According to Piaget's cognitive-developmental theory, why should students wait until high school before studying geometry?

• A) Children in earlier grades cannot handle the concrete nature of the problems.
• B) Geometry requires abstract thinking which may be difficult for younger children.
• C) Geometry requires conservation of mass, which is a difficult concept for younger children.
• D) Geometry requires the concept of the imaginary audience, which is NOT achieved until adolescence.

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Definitions:

Suppression

The conscious deliberate effort to control and inhibit unwanted or unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or impulses.

Conditioned Forgetting

The loss of a memory due to interference from learning through conditioning, rather than organic causes.

Classical Conditioning

A process of learning in which a reaction initially triggered by the second of two jointly presented stimuli is in time triggered by the first stimulus as a result of their repeated pairing.

Operant Conditioning

A learning process in psychology in which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment.