Lesson 3.2.4

3.2.4 Cognitive development and education (cognitive) Quiz: OCR Psychology, Unit 3

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The 20 questions

  1. According to Piaget, which stage of cognitive development occurs from birth to approximately two years?

    • Preoperational
    • Formal operational
    • Sensorimotor
    • Concrete operational
  2. What key cognitive milestone is typically achieved during Piaget's preoperational stage?

    • Conservation
    • Symbolic function
    • Abstract logic
    • Object permanence
  3. Which Piagetian task demonstrates a child's inability to understand conservation of liquid volume?

    • Three mountains
    • False belief
    • Strange situation
    • Beaker task
  4. What limitation in thinking is demonstrated when a child assumes everyone sees their viewpoint?

    • Egocentrism
    • Centration
    • Seriation
    • Animism
  5. At what stage of cognitive development does a child master the concept of conservation?

    • Formal operational
    • Sensorimotor
    • Concrete operational
    • Preoperational
  6. What cognitive ability allows older children to mentally arrange items by quantitative dimensions like length?

    • Seriation
    • Decentration
    • Reversibility
    • Classification
  7. Which developmental psychologist proposed the concept of the Zone of Proximal Development?

    • John Jerome
    • Lev Vygotsky
    • Jean Piaget
    • Jerome Bruner
  8. What term describes the temporary support given by a teacher to help a pupil learn?

    • Assimilation
    • Scaffolding
    • Equilibration
    • Accommodation
  9. According to Vygotsky, what is the primary cultural tool used to mediate cognitive development?

    • Language
    • Reflection
    • Instinct
    • Biology
  10. What is the term for children talking aloud to themselves to regulate their own behaviour?

    • Private speech
    • Echoic speech
    • Social speech
    • Collective monologue
  11. Which educational approach actively encourages children to discover principles through hands-on exploration?

    • Rote learning
    • Discovery learning
    • Direct instruction
    • Didactic teaching
  12. Seven-year-old Leo understands that reshaping a ball of clay does not change its amount. What has he achieved?

    • Conservation
    • Centration
    • Animism
    • Egocentrism
  13. A teacher breaks a complex maths problem into smaller steps and gradually withdraws help. What is this?

    • Centration
    • Assimilation
    • Scaffolding
    • Maturation
  14. Four-year-old Mia believes the moon follows her car because she can see it moving. What is this?

    • Animism
    • Conservation
    • Reversibility
    • Seriation
  15. A child focuses exclusively on the height of a glass, ignoring its narrower width. What limitation is this?

    • Deduction
    • Reversibility
    • Centration
    • Operationalism
  16. Primary classrooms often use group work and peer collaboration based on whose developmental theory?

    • Freud
    • Bowlby
    • Piaget
    • Vygotsky
  17. Which Piagetian stage is characterised by the acquisition of abstract reasoning and hypothetical thinking?

    • Preoperational
    • Concrete operational
    • Formal operational
    • Sensorimotor
  18. What educational implication arises from Piaget's idea that cognitive stages must mature before learning occurs?

    • Scaffolding
    • Acceleration
    • Readiness
    • Conditioning
  19. When a child incorporates new environmental information into an existing mental schema, what process has occurred?

    • Assimilation
    • Accommodation
    • Habituation
    • Equilibration
  20. When existing schemas must be altered to fit new, conflicting information, what cognitive process takes place?

    • Accommodation
    • Centration
    • Assimilation
    • Conservation

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