Jean Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory

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According to Piaget, how does knowledge develop in children?

  • Through interaction with the environment and active learning (correct)
  • Through passive absorption of information
  • Through genetic predisposition
  • Through rote memorization

What term refers to the internal mental symbols that one uses to represent aspects of experience?

  • Symbolic Schemes (correct)
  • Cognitive Operation
  • Equilibrium
  • Adaptation

Which term describes the process of interpreting new experiences by incorporating them into existing schemes?

  • Assimilation (correct)
  • Organization
  • Accommodation
  • Scheme

What is the process of modifying existing schemes in order to incorporate or adapt to new experiences?

<p>Accommodation (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which term refers to the process by which children combine existing schemes into new and more complex intellectual structures?

<p>Organization (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term used for repeated patterns of behavior that develop by trial and error and never stop changing, but are constantly refined?

<p>Scheme (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the process of interpreting new experiences by incorporating them into existing schemes?

<p>Assimilation (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What refers to the process of modifying existing schemes in order to incorporate or adapt to new experiences?

<p>Accommodation (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What takes place internally, apart from direct contact with the environment?

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What is the term used by Piaget to describe the implementation of assimilation and accommodation to create equilibrium between thinking and reality?

<p>Equilibration (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to Piaget, what depends on the process of equilibration?

<p>Learning (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do teachers do to take advantage of equilibration?

<p>Create situations that cause disequilibrium (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term used to describe a state of imbalance between what is understood and what is encountered in Piaget's theory?

<p>Disequilibrium (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the inborn tendency to adjust to the demands of the environment?

<p>Adaptation (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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