Lesson 3.1.3.2.3

3.1.3.2.3 Reduction of egocentricity and development of conservation Quiz: AQA Psychology, Unit 3

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The 20 questions

  1. What term describes a child's inability to see things from another person's perspective?

    • Decentration
    • Centration
    • Egocentrism
    • Conservation

  2. In the three mountains task, which perspective does an egocentric child describe?

    • A side view
    • The doll's view
    • Their own view
    • An aerial view

  3. Which term describes a child's ability to take another person's perspective?

    • Conservation
    • Centration
    • Egocentrism
    • Decentration

  4. Which concept describes the understanding that a quantity stays the same when its appearance changes?

    • Centration
    • Conservation
    • Egocentrism
    • Assimilation

  5. Which concept describes a child focusing on one feature of a situation and ignoring others?

    • Centration
    • Conservation
    • Reversibility
    • Decentration

  6. A child who understands that a row of counters still has the same number after being spread out has grasped which idea?

    • Reversibility of time
    • Egocentrism of number
    • Conservation of number
    • Centration of distance

  7. Which process involves overcoming egocentrism to consider another person's viewpoint?

    • Accommodation
    • Centration
    • Decentration
    • Assimilation

  8. Mastering conservation shows a child is moving towards which type of thinking?

    • Egocentric thinking
    • Perception-based thinking
    • Trial and error
    • Logical reasoning

  9. Focusing on only one visual feature of an object, such as height, demonstrates what?

    • Centration
    • Object permanence
    • Conservation
    • Decentration

  10. How do different types of conservation, such as mass and volume, typically emerge?

    • All at once
    • At different ages
    • In reverse order
    • At identical ages

  11. Reshaping a lump of clay into a long cylinder tests conservation of what?

    • Volume
    • Number
    • Mass
    • Length

  12. Spreading out a row of counters to test if quantity changes measures what?

    • Conservation of number
    • Conservation of mass
    • Object permanence
    • Conservation of volume

  13. What term describes considering multiple aspects of a situation simultaneously?

    • Egocentrism
    • Decentration
    • Conservation
    • Centration

  14. Which two cognitive concepts explain why pre-operational children fail to conserve?

    • Centration and egocentrism
    • Reversibility and decentration
    • Somatic and autonomic
    • Assimilation and schema

  15. Which cognitive ability allows concrete operational children to mentally undo a physical transformation?

    • Reversibility
    • Egocentrism
    • Assimilation
    • Centration

  16. Why might Piaget have underestimated children's ability to conserve in his original tasks?

    • Lacked meaningful context
    • Sample was large
    • Children were old
    • Tasks were easy

  17. A 7-year-old realises that rolling clay back into a ball returns it to its original shape. Which idea is this?

    • Egocentrism
    • Reversibility
    • Centration
    • Object permanence

  18. What happens to a child's egocentrism as they progress through Piaget's stages of development?

    • It disappears immediately
    • It gradually decreases
    • It stays constant
    • It rapidly increases

  19. What term describes a child considering both the height and width of a container simultaneously?

    • Decentration
    • Centration
    • Reversibility
    • Egocentrism

  20. According to Piaget, during which stage of development do children first master conservation?

    • Sensory-motor
    • Formal operational
    • Pre-operational
    • Concrete operational

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