What are the two principles that underlie all cognitive growth according to Piaget?
What will be an ideal response?
A good answer would include the following key points:
• Piaget suggested that two principles underlie growth in children's schemes, assimilation, and accommodation.
• Assimilation is the process in which people understand an experience in terms of their current stage of cognitive development and way of thinking.
• Accommodation refers to changes in existing ways of thinking that occur in response to encounters with new stimuli.
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According to an observational study by Gottman where previously unacquainted children were observed in a home setting three times, children who became friends _____________
a. tended to be those who excelled in academics b. tended to be better at exchanging relevant information c. were not as good at resolving conflict than children who didn’t become friends d. were from the same socioeconomic class
Rogers believed that a person was more likely to become a fully functioning person if he or she
a. resolved the conflicts of the phallic stage. b. identified adequately with his or her same sex parent. c. was exposed to conditions of worth as a child. d. received ample amounts of love and acceptance from others.
What type of academic self concept would likely result from a student who thought his teachers
had high expectations for his success? a. He would feel competent, creating a positive global self concept. b. He would feel pressured to achieve, resulting in a poor global self concept. c. He would feel incompetent and unable to live up to expectations causing his self concept to plummet. d. He would feel overly confident, creating an inflated yet unrealistic self concept.
During the first year of life, the child is said to go through the __________ stage.
a. oral b. anal c. genital d. phallic