Lesson 3.2.4
3.2.4 Cognitive development and education (cognitive) Quiz: OCR Psychology, Unit 3
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The 20 questions
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According to Piaget, which stage of cognitive development occurs from birth to approximately two years?
- Preoperational
- Formal operational
- Sensorimotor
- Concrete operational
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What key cognitive milestone is typically achieved during Piaget's preoperational stage?
- Conservation
- Symbolic function
- Abstract logic
- Object permanence
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Which Piagetian task demonstrates a child's inability to understand conservation of liquid volume?
- Three mountains
- False belief
- Strange situation
- Beaker task
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What limitation in thinking is demonstrated when a child assumes everyone sees their viewpoint?
- Egocentrism
- Centration
- Seriation
- Animism
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At what stage of cognitive development does a child master the concept of conservation?
- Formal operational
- Sensorimotor
- Concrete operational
- Preoperational
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What cognitive ability allows older children to mentally arrange items by quantitative dimensions like length?
- Seriation
- Decentration
- Reversibility
- Classification
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Which developmental psychologist proposed the concept of the Zone of Proximal Development?
- John Jerome
- Lev Vygotsky
- Jean Piaget
- Jerome Bruner
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What term describes the temporary support given by a teacher to help a pupil learn?
- Assimilation
- Scaffolding
- Equilibration
- Accommodation
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According to Vygotsky, what is the primary cultural tool used to mediate cognitive development?
- Language
- Reflection
- Instinct
- Biology
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What is the term for children talking aloud to themselves to regulate their own behaviour?
- Private speech
- Echoic speech
- Social speech
- Collective monologue
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Which educational approach actively encourages children to discover principles through hands-on exploration?
- Rote learning
- Discovery learning
- Direct instruction
- Didactic teaching
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Seven-year-old Leo understands that reshaping a ball of clay does not change its amount. What has he achieved?
- Conservation
- Centration
- Animism
- Egocentrism
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A teacher breaks a complex maths problem into smaller steps and gradually withdraws help. What is this?
- Centration
- Assimilation
- Scaffolding
- Maturation
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Four-year-old Mia believes the moon follows her car because she can see it moving. What is this?
- Animism
- Conservation
- Reversibility
- Seriation
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A child focuses exclusively on the height of a glass, ignoring its narrower width. What limitation is this?
- Deduction
- Reversibility
- Centration
- Operationalism
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Primary classrooms often use group work and peer collaboration based on whose developmental theory?
- Freud
- Bowlby
- Piaget
- Vygotsky
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Which Piagetian stage is characterised by the acquisition of abstract reasoning and hypothetical thinking?
- Preoperational
- Concrete operational
- Formal operational
- Sensorimotor
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What educational implication arises from Piaget's idea that cognitive stages must mature before learning occurs?
- Scaffolding
- Acceleration
- Readiness
- Conditioning
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When a child incorporates new environmental information into an existing mental schema, what process has occurred?
- Assimilation
- Accommodation
- Habituation
- Equilibration
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When existing schemas must be altered to fit new, conflicting information, what cognitive process takes place?
- Accommodation
- Centration
- Assimilation
- Conservation
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