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101) Piaget overestimated the degree to which a. prenatal factors influence the rate at which skills emerge. b. cultural factors influence the rate of skill development. c. social factors influence skill development. d. object permanence develops in children. 102) An inability to perform conservation tasks is associated with the _____________ stage, whereas children lacking in object permanence would be in the _____________ stage. a. concrete operational; preoperational b. preoperational; sensorimotor c. sensorimotor; concrete operational d. formal operational; preoperational 103) A seven-year-old is asked to imagine he has a third eye, which could be placed anywhere on the body. When asked where he would like to place the extra eye, the seven-year-old is likely to say a. “Between my other two eyes.” b. “On my back.” c. “In the palm of my hand.” d. “In my stomach.” 104) Which of the following is not a criticism of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development? a. The methodologies may be culturally biased. b. Children’s ability to report their reasoning influenced interpretations. c. Children’s development may be more stagelike than Piaget believed. d. Some children operated at different stage levels for different tasks. 105) During which of Piaget’s stages does a child demonstrate the ability reason about abstract ideas and novel information? a. Preoperational b. Concrete operations c. Formal operations d. Sensorimotor 106) Ken is able to perform mathematical operations only if he can use manipulatives and familiar examples in working up his answers. Ken is in Piaget’s ________ stage. a. formal operations b. sensorimotor c. concrete operations d. preoperational 107) According to Piaget, students begin to successfully complete division and multiplication problems during the ________ stage. a. formal operations b. sensorimotor c. preoperational d. concrete operations 108) According to Piaget, egocentrism is to ________ as conservation is to ________. a. preoperations; formal operations b. preoperations; concrete operations c. formal operations; preoperations d. concrete operations; formal operations 109) Piaget’s theory applies to such topics as a. predicting cognitive developmental gains in college students. b. exploring gender differences in cognitive development. c. creating lesson plans for first grade students. d. designing high school curricula for gifted and talented students. 110) Asking students to predict how the course of history may have changed if the first prime minister were a woman would likely motivate students in which of Piaget’s stages to answer thoroughly? a. Sensorimotor b. Preoperational c. Formal operations d. Concrete operations