What view does Piaget have on the role of stages in continuous/discontinuous development?

What will be an ideal response?


Piaget felt that there had been an overemphasis on his distinctive stages of development. According to Piaget, knowledge is constructed by the continuous revision and reorganization of intellectual structures in conjunction with experience. Thus, cognition is always undergoing development. Cognitive development is more like a spiral in which change constantly occurs, although at differing rates.

Psychology

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Addictions and repetitive physical actions are examples of what Allport called:

a. propriate functional autonomy. c. perseverative striving. b. perseverative functional autonomy. d. propriate patterning.

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What information is presented on Axis I?

A. Major Clinical Syndromes B. Personality Disorders C. Psychosocial and Environmental Problems D. Neurological Functioning

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Which of the following research designs have attrition rate concerns?

a. Cross-sectional and longitudinal b. Longitudinal and correlational c. Cross-sectional and sequential d. Longitudinal and sequential

Psychology

Which developmental period describes a time when children's general level of activity is extraordinarily high?

A. infancy B. adolescent years C. preschool years D. K to 12 school years

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