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Appendix C

Piaget Worksheet

Directions: Review Module 26 of Psychology and Your Life. Complete the matrix below and answer the
questions that follow.

Cognitive Stage Age Range Major Characteristics

Sensorimotor stage Birth to 2 years demonstrates motor skills,

Preoperational stage
Concrete operational stage
Formal operational stage
from experiences and physical
interactions without the use of
language
2 to 7 years demonstrates the use of
symbols, language use as
they mature, memory and
imagination skills
7 to 12 years demonstrates the use of
intelligence by using logic
Their thinking still may display
some limitations, bound to
concrete, physical reality of
the world around them
12 years to Adulthood demonstrates the ability to see
the larger picture, viewing the
abstract, formal, and logical
points of views. Their minds
are no long tied to there
individual environments, able
to use logic to solve problems.

1. This is the awareness that objects and people continue to exist, even if they are out of sight.

a. Recognition
b. Object permanence X
c. Intuition
d. Cognitive development

2. During this stage, motor skills are developed; however, there is little or no capacity for symbolic
representation.

a. Formal operational
b. Concrete operational mastery
c. Sensorimotor X
d. Preoperational

3. This is the term for when children view the world from only their perspective.

a. Egocentric thought X

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 b. Conceited
c. Metacognition
d. Self-esteem

4. The knowledge that quantity is unrelated to the arrangement and physical appearance of objects.

a. Principle of conservation X
b. Zone of proximal development
c. Mass
d. Formal operational stage

5. This term involves the planning, monitoring, and revising of cognitive strategies.

a. Authoritative
b. Principle of conservation
c. Metacognition X
d. Information processing

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