A Child in the Preoperational Stage Cannot Understand a Family

question 24

Multiple Choice

A child in the preoperational stage cannot understand a family tree,but a child in the concrete operational stage can.Piaget claims that this is because a child in the concrete operational stage can

• A)think abstractly.
• B)classify things.
• C)memorize better.
• D)reason intuitively.

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Definitions:

Different Colors

Varieties in the visible spectrum that result from differing qualities of light being reflected or emitted by objects.

Stereotype Threat

The risk of confirming negative stereotypes about an individual's racial, ethnic, gender, or cultural group, which can impair their performance.

Cognitive Flexibility

The mental ability to switch between thinking about two different concepts, and to think about multiple concepts simultaneously.

Confirmation Bias

A cognitive bias that causes people to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that affirms their preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.