Could someone see if I got any of the questions wrong. I feel that some questions have multiple answers but there is only one that is correct. Please help. thanks a lot

Question

Cognitive Development
Respond to the following statements using Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development

1. A child has a tea party with his dolls, pretending each doll is alive and engaging in conversation.
Preoperational

2. An infant’s mother takes away her toy and the baby, thinking the toy has disappeared, begins to cry.
Sensor motor

3. When asked to write an essay entitled, “How I Became Me: Influences that Created my Identity,” teenage student opens by stating, “I don’t know who I am yet; check back in a few years…”
Formal

4. During a birthday party for her younger brother Billy Bob, Jennifer tries to open the presents. When told that it was Billy Bob’s birthday and not hers, Jennifer stamps her feet and cries, “But it’s not fair!”
Preoperational

5. A student completes a Compare & Contrast poster by gluing facts and other information to poster board.
Formal

6. Instead of speaking, a crawling baby asks for his bottle by pointing at it.
Sensor motor

State whether each scenario is an example of assimilation or accommodation.

7. A child has always used a fork to eat his food. Today the child is learning how to use chopsticks to eat.
Accommodation

8. Running late for his hockey game, Moe has to borrow a teammate’s stick in order to play.
Assimilation

9. A child knows how to button his new jacket because he knew how to button his shirt.
Assimilation

10. A girl learns how to walk in high heels instead of flats.
Accommodation

11. After getting a “big-boy” bed, Herman has to be cautious not to roll off because it does not have guardrails like his old bed.
Accommodation

Moral Development
Answer the following scenarios/Statements using your knowledge of Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral
Development.

12. Stealing is bad, and people who steal should be punished.
Conventional

13. As the most important thing in society is family, it would be foolish for a man to let his wife die for fear of being put in jail.
Conventional

14. One should not steal, under any circumstances, as it is illegal to do so.
Conventional

15. An older child helps his elderly neighbor with yard work because his mother promised to let him stay uplater to play video games if he did.
Pre-Conventional

16. A young student completes all of his homework and keeps his desk tidy because that way the teacher will like him more.
Conventional

17. A child does not go in her mother’s make-up drawer any more because every time she did, her mother would smack the girl’s hand.
Pre-Conventional

Answer 1

I agree with you on #s 1-6.

I'm not sure about #s 7-17, but one of these websites may help you clarify anything.

http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/piaget.htm

http://www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/development/piaget.shtml

http://www.edpsycinteractive.org/topics/cogsys/piaget.html

Answer 2

thanks Writeacher for ur help

Answer 3

You're welcome. =)

Answer 4

Since this is not my particular area of expertise, I searched Google under the key words "piaget stages of development" to get these possible sources:

http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/piaget.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_cognitive_development
http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/piaget.htm

I searched Google under the key words "piaget assimilation accommodation" to get these possible sources:

http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/assimacc.htm
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/piaget.html
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:fCARcqq3bX8J:www.pugetsound.edu/facultypages/cjones/piaget-examples.doc+piaget+assimilation+accommodation&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari

In the future, you can find the information you desire more quickly, if you use appropriate key words to do your own search. Also see http://hanlib.sou.edu/searchtools/.

I hope this helps.