Name and briefly describe the four stages of Piaget's cognitive development theory
What will be an ideal response?
A good answer will include the following key points:
• Sensorimotor (birth to 2 years): Infant's knowledge of the world is based on senses and motor skills. By the end of the period, infant uses mental representations.
• Preoperational (2 – 7 years): The child learns how to use symbols, such as words and numbers to represent the world, but relates to the world only through his or her perspective.
• Concrete operational (7 – 11 years): The child understands and applies logical operations to experiences, provided they are concrete and focused on the here and now.
• Formal operational (adolescence and beyond): The adolescent or adult thinks abstractly, speculates on hypothetical situations, and reasons deductively about what may be possible.
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A. civil (involuntary) commitment. B. criminal commitment. C. parens patriae. D. mens rea.
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A) parsimony B) theoretical coherence C) comprehensiveness D) testability
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a. societal hostility will decrease if homosexuals keep their sexual preferences concealed. b. society would prefer lesbians to "come out" and gay men to remain hidden. c. the more gay men and lesbians a person knows, the more favorable his or her attitude. d. hostility could be decreased markedly if homosexual individuals remain segregated from society.
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a) plateau b) orgasm c) excitement d) resolution