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Very hard
  • A. Five years
  • B. Six years
  • C. Seven years
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Piaget associated animistic thinking with children up to about seven years, when they may treat moving objects as alive.

Correct answer: Seven years
Very hard
  • A. Abstract
  • B. Experimentation
  • C. Deductive
  • D. Transitive Inference

Explanation: Transitive inference involves deriving a relationship through linked facts, such as concluding that A is related to C from relationships…

Correct answer: Transitive Inference
Fairly easy
  • A. Second
  • B. First
  • C. Third
  • D. Four

Explanation: The preoperational stage is Piaget’s second stage, following the sensorimotor stage and preceding the concrete operational stage.

Correct answer: Second
Moderate
  • A. Logical thinking
  • B. Seriation
  • C. Classification
  • D. Decentration

Explanation: Seriation means arranging objects in an ordered sequence according to a property such as size, weight, or length.

Correct answer: Seriation
Fairly easy
  • A. None of the above
  • B. Sensorimotor stage
  • C. Operational stage
  • D. Formal operational stage

Explanation: The formal operational stage enables reasoning beyond directly observed experiences, including abstract, hypothetical, idealistic, and…

Correct answer: Formal operational stage
Fairly easy
  • A. 1 year
  • B. 2 years
  • C. 3 years
  • D. 4 years

Explanation: The sensorimotor stage extends from birth to approximately two years. During this period, infants learn mainly through sensory experiences…

Correct answer: 2 years
Fairly easy
  • A. Class inclusion
  • B. Irreversiblity
  • C. Language skills
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Irreversibility is the inability to mentally reverse an action or return a situation to its original order.

Correct answer: Irreversiblity
Hard
  • A. Intuitive thought
  • B. Transductive reasoning
  • C. All of the above
  • D. Language Skills

Explanation: The preoperational stage includes rapid language development, intuitive thought, and transductive reasoning, in which children connect…

Correct answer: All of the above
Moderate
  • A. Operations
  • B. Experience
  • C. Egocentric
  • D. Animism

Explanation: Concrete operational thinking involves mental operations, such as classification, seriation, conservation, and reversibility.

Correct answer: Operations
Fairly easy
  • A. Formal operational stage
  • B. Preoperational stage
  • C. Concrete operational stage
  • D. Sensorimotor stage

Explanation: Piaget’s fourth stage is the formal operational stage, marked by abstract and hypothetical reasoning.

Correct answer: Formal operational stage
Moderate
  • A. Egocentric
  • B. Accommodation
  • C. Animism
  • D. Assimilation

Explanation: Accommodation occurs when a child changes an existing mental schema to fit new information that does not match it.

Correct answer: Accommodation
Moderate
  • A. Reversibility
  • B. Seriation
  • C. Decentration
  • D. All of these

Explanation: Decentration is the ability to consider more than one aspect of a situation at the same time.

Correct answer: Decentration
Fairly easy
  • A. Abstract thinking
  • B. Logical thinking
  • C. Normal thinking
  • D. None of the above

Explanation: Abstract thinking concerns ideas, objects, or situations that are not physically present, such as hypothetical possibilities or general…

Correct answer: Abstract thinking
Fairly easy
  • A. Seriation
  • B. Centration
  • C. Animism
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Centration is the tendency to focus on one noticeable feature while ignoring other relevant features, such as judging a taller glass to…

Correct answer: Centration
Fairly easy
  • A. Transitive Inference
  • B. Deductive
  • C. Egocentricism
  • D. Abstract

Explanation: Egocentrism is the inability to recognize that other people may have viewpoints or experiences different from one’s own.

Correct answer: Egocentricism
Moderate
  • A. Centration
  • B. Disequilibrium
  • C. Artificialism
  • D. Equilibrium

Explanation: In Piaget’s theory, equilibrium refers to mental balance between existing cognitive schemes and new environmental information.

Correct answer: Equilibrium
Easy
  • A. Personal development
  • B. Physical development
  • C. Mental development
  • D. Social development

Explanation: Physical development covers changes in the body’s structure and functioning over time, including growth, motor skills, and physiological…

Correct answer: Physical development
Moderate
  • A. Psychologanalsis
  • B. Gestalt theory
  • C. Functionalism
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Functionalism developed partly in opposition to Structuralism, shifting attention from the contents of consciousness to the purposes and…

Correct answer: Functionalism
Fairly easy
  • A. None of these
  • B. Psycho-analytical method
  • C. Library method
  • D. Introspection

Explanation: Structuralists studied conscious experience by using introspection, in which trained individuals reported the basic elements of their own…

Correct answer: Introspection
Moderate
  • A. Self-observation
  • B. Collective observation
  • C. Project method
  • D. None of the above

Explanation: Introspection literally means self-observation: observing and reporting one’s own conscious experiences under controlled conditions.

Correct answer: Self-observation