CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

PIAGET

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Four-year-old Jennifer mistakenly believes that her mother would like to receive a toy doll as a Christmas present because she herself would like to. This best illustrates Piaget’s concept of:
A
accommodation
B
attachment
C
object permanence
D
egocentricism
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Solution: According to Piaget’s Genetic Epistemology, Jennifer is in the Pre-Operational Stage of Cognitive development because she reflected the state of egocentric behaviour which is the characteristic of pre-operational stage.

Detailed explanation-2: -Four-year-old Jennifer mistakenly believes that her mother would like to receive a toy doll as a Christmas present.

Detailed explanation-3: -Summed up, some researchers have described it this way: Authoritative parents are highly demanding (like authoritarian parents), but they are also very responsive to their children’s needs (Maccoby and Martin 1983).

Detailed explanation-4: -When Tommy’s mother hides his favorite toy under a blanket, he acts as though it no longer exists and makes no attempt to retrieve it.

Detailed explanation-5: -If children cannot grasp the principle of conservation, they are unable to: recognize that the quantity of a substance remains the same despite changes in its shape.

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