PSYC 3110

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PSYC 3110

• Quiz
• Piaget Vygotsky

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Question 1

• Of the following four concepts the one
  conceptually least related to the other three in
  Piaget's theory is

• a. accommodation.
• assimilation.
• schema.
• adaptation.

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Question 2

• A child is shown two sponges and identifies them
  as identical. One sponge is then cut up while the
  child watches so that it is now in twelve smaller
  pieces. When asked which has more sponge, the
  child says the amounts of sponge are the same.
  The concept best illustrated by the child's
  actions is

1. egocentrism.
2. centration.
3. transformation.
4. conservation.

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Question 3

• You're teaching the concept of noun to your third
  graders students. Using Piaget's theory as a
  basis for making your decision, the best example
  of the following to use in illustrating the
  concept would be

• a soccer ball.
• b. a drawing of a house.
• c. a colored picture of an oak tree.
• d. a picture of a girl with the word girl
  written underneath it.

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Question 4

• Jackie puts a pencil and ruler together because
  they are both straight. The stage of development
  that this behavior best illustrates is

1. sensorimotor.
2. preoperational.
3. concrete operational.
4. formal operational.

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Question 5

• Jackie puts a pencil and ruler together because
  they are both straight. The characteristic Jackie
  is demonstrating is

a. identifying cause-effect relationships. b.
grouping on the basis of a functional
relationship. c. seriation of objects. d.
grouping on the basis of a perceptual feature.
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Question 6

• Irene knows how to count to ten. She counts the
  coins she has in her pocket (2 quarters, 5 dimes,
  and 3 nickels) and says, "I have ten cents." From
  Piaget's perspective, Irene is

a. Accommodating the counting task to the fact
that the different coins have different values.
b. Assimilating the counting task to the way she
has counted things in the past. c. Experiencing
disequilibrium about how to count money.
d. Showing insufficient physiological maturation
to perform the task correctly.
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Question 7

• Roy gets confused when his chemistry teacher
  talks about a gas freezing at -100 Fahrenheit.
  "How can you have minus degrees, Ms. Lewis?
  Temperature can't be less than zero." Roy is
  showing _______, indicating that he may not yet
  have made the transition to Piaget's _______
  stage.

a. single classification concrete operational
b. multiple classification formal operational
c. dependence on concrete reality concrete
operational d. dependence on concrete reality
formal operational
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Question 8

• Vygotsky viewed cognitive development as

1. a sequence of learning stimulus-response
   associations. 
2. a process that can be understood only in terms of
   the historical and cultural contexts children
   experience. 
3. genetically predetermined. 
4. subject to mutations during its course.

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Question 9

• Which one of the following is the best example of
  scaffolding?

a. Before her beginning saxophone students start
to play "Jingle Bells," Ms. Arnold reminds them
where each finger should be on their instruments.
b. Mr. Baker gives a detailed lecture about the
events leading up to the Gulf War. c. Mr.
Christian has his students write a ten-page
research paper on the African country of their
own choosing. d. Ms. DiCicco equips her
kindergarten classroom with a variety of art
supplies that her students can use during free
time.
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Question 10

• Consider Piaget's and Vygotsky's views of
  knowledge construction. Of the following, the
  most valid conclusion is

a. Vygotsky emphasizes the role of social
interaction in development, whereas social
interaction is not important for Piaget. b.
Vygotsky's view provides for the teacher a more
prominent role in guiding learning than does
Piaget's view. c. Piaget views learners as
active, whereas Vygotsky views them as passive
recipients of guidance through scaffolding. d.
Language is critical in Vygotsky's view of
development, whereas it is irrelevant in Piaget's
view, since, according to Piaget, manipulation of
concrete materials is the primary cause of
development.
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Question 11

• Based on Piaget's work, which of the following is
  the best explanation for the students'
  difficulty?

a. The students are not yet chronologically at
the age of formal operations and this is a formal
operational task. b. The students' maturation
isn't to the point where they are ready to handle
this topic. c. The students are among the 50
who don't reach the stage of formal operations.
d. The students lack the concrete experiences
needed to understand the ideas involved.
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Question 12

• Of the following, the best solution to Mr.
  Kenna's problem according to Piaget would be to

a. describe the process of the change in
molecular motion between a solid and a liquid in
more detail, so they see the difference. b. show
them a model illustrating the molecular motion of
the substance in each state and the change in
motion as it melts. c. melt a piece of ice in
front of them and have them describe it as it
melts. d. have them explain their ideas about
melting (instead of describing the process for
them).
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Question 13

• Based on this information and Piaget's work,
  which of the following is the best assessment of
  Mrs. Wilson's teaching of the concept volume?

a. Her instruction was effective because the
students had a concrete illustrations for both
cube and volume. b. Her instruction was
effective because she reinforced the concept by
having them say they had a volume of twelve
cubes. c. Her instruction was ineffective,
because she should have used actual units (such
as twelve cubic inches) instead of twelve
cubes. d. Her instruction was ineffective,
because she had a concrete illustration for
volume but not for cube.
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Question 14

• Consider the students' understanding of cube
  compared to their understanding of volume. Which
  of the following is the most valid description of
  their understanding?

a. Their understanding of cube and volume will be
similar, since they saw concrete examples of
each. b. Their understanding of volume will be
more complete than their understanding of cube,
since the lesson focused on volume. c. Their
understanding of volume will be more complete
than their understanding of cube since Mrs.
Solomon reinforced the idea at the end. d. Their
understanding of cube will be more complete than
their understanding of volume, since volume
requires a higher level of conservation than does
cube.
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Question 15

• The next day Mrs. Wilson has her students again
  make a stack of blocks (2 x 2 x 3) and count the
  cubes, and she then has them make another one (1
  x 2 x 6) by putting the blocks in two rows of 6,
  side by side. They again count the cubes. She
  then asks them if the two volumes are the same or
  if they are different. Based on Piaget's work, if
  the students' behaviors are typical for children
  their ages, which of the following is the most
  likely response?

a. The students will conclude that the volumes
are the same, since they can see 12 cubes in each
case. b. The students will conclude that the
volumes are the same since they actually counted
the cubes. c. The students will conclude that
the volumes are different, since their
understanding of volume is likely to be
incomplete. d. Some students will conclude the
volumes are the same since they actually counted
the cubes, but other students will conclude that
the volumes are different, since they look
different.