HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: A LIFE-SPAN VIEW 7TH SAMPLE TEST
FOR CH. 10|VERIFIED ANSWERS 100%|2025
Piaget's ideas were largely ignored by American psychologists until the 1960s. Three
of the following are probable reasons why this was so. Which one is not a likely
reason?-✓✓Piaget studied children rather than nonhuman species.
Which one of the following statements best describes Piaget's view of how children
acquire knowledge about the world?-✓✓Children actively construct their own view of
the world from their experiences with the environment.
Four-year-old Becky is playing with blocks, stacking them one on top of another until
her towers eventually tumble, and then stacking the blocks again. Which one of the
following best reflects Piaget's view of how Becky is probably learning in this
situation?-✓✓She is actively thinking about and interpreting the results of her
actions.
In Piaget's theory, a scheme can best be described as:-✓✓An organized group of
similar thoughts or actions
In her first trip to a zoo, 7-year-old Latisha notices that leopards have paws very
similar in shape to her cat Snowball's paws. She also notices that leopards walk in
much the same way that Snowball does. Latisha starts to wonder if perhaps leopards
are cats. Latisha's thinking illustrates Piaget's idea that thought is characterized by:-
✓✓use of schemes
Louis receives a new soccer ball and begins to dribble it in the same way he dribbles
his basketball. His dribbling of the new ball reflects Piaget's notion of:-
✓✓assimilation
Which one of the following clearly illustrates Piaget's concept of assimilation?-
✓✓Five-year-old Harvey draws on the chalkboard with a large white crayon instead
of with chalk.
Which one of the following best illustrates Piaget's concept of accommodation?-
✓✓Donna revises her understanding of what clouds are like when she studies them
in science.
Which one of the following teachers is definitely keeping in mind Piaget's idea that
assimilation and accommodation are both necessary for learning and cognitive
development to occur?-✓✓Mr. Baretta shows students how a new topic is similar to
the things they already know, but also different in certain ways.
As a first-grade teacher reads a book about penguins in Antarctica, she points to
Antarctica on a globe. Six-year-old John seems really puzzled. "How come they don't
fall off the earth?" he asks. From Piaget's perspective, John can best be described
as:-✓✓Experiencing disequilibrium
