A 3-year-old loves sports. Her mom recently taught her how to catch a big beach ball and now her dad is now teaching her how to catch a small tennis ball. At first, she tries to "surround" the tennis ball with her arms, the way she did the beach ball
Slowly, she learns to use just her hands. The girl's attempt to restructure her scheme illustrates Piaget's concept of
a. egocentrism.
b. object permanence.
c. assimilation.
d. accommodation.
Answer: d. accommodation.
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a. physical aches and pains b. an inability to get out of bed c. a loss of appetite d. dysphoria
Exercise is not advised during pregnancy
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
In a study (Miller and Bersoff, 1992) comparing third-graders, seventh-graders, and adults in Mysore, India and Los Angeles in their handling of hypothetical scenarios, Americans in all three age groups were more likely to
a. choose the justice-based response. b. choose the interpersonal response. c. try to avoid choosing any response. d. reject both the justice-based and interpersonal responses.
According to Piaget, the advances of concrete operations are evident in new abilities for performing tasks of ____
a. the development of motor skills and hand-eye coordination b. egocentrism, animism, and language development c. conservation, classification, and seriation d. hypothetical, deductive reasoning, and hypothesis testing