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2 marksOutline what Piaget meant by conservation.
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Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development (AQA A Level Psychology): Exam Questions
1 hour12 questions
21 mark
1 markWhich one of the following best describes Piaget’s concept of conservation?
Understanding that things are different even though they look the same.
Understanding that things are different when they look different.
Understanding that things are the same even though they look different.
Understanding that things are the same when they look the same
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32 marks
2 marksBriefly outline what Piaget meant by ‘class inclusion’.
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41 mark
Which one of the following statements describes one feature of what Piaget meant by ‘egocentrism’?
The inability to understand abstract and hypothetical ideas
The inability to understand that people still exist when out of sight
The inability to understand things are the same even if they look different
The inability to understand things from different points of view
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5a3 marks
A psychologist investigating egocentrism interviewed 100 parents, each of whom had a four-year-old child. She asked each parent to rate his or her child’s egocentrism on a scale of 0–10, with 0 representing no egocentrism and 10 representing extreme egocentrism.
The psychologist calculated measures of central tendency for the egocentrism scores. They found that the mean egocentrism score was 4.8, the median egocentrism score was 5 and the mode egocentrism score was 6.
Sketch a graph to show the most likely distribution curves for the egocentrism scores in this study. Label the axes of your graph and mark on it the positions of the mean, median and mode.
5b1 mark
What sort of distribution does your graph show?
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62 marks
A psychologist investigating egocentrism interviewed 100 parents, each of whom had a four-year-old child. She asked each parent to rate his or her child’s egocentrism on a scale of 0–10, with 0 representing no egocentrism and 10 representing extreme egocentrism.
The psychologist calculated measures of central tendency for the egocentrism scores. They found that the mean egocentrism score was 4.8, the median egocentrism score was 5 and the mode egocentrism score was 6.
Explain one limitation of asking parents to rate their own children.
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14 marks
4 marksDescribe what Piaget meant by equilibration.
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24 marks
Two mothers are describing how their respective babies, Billy and Milo play.
Billy’s mum says, ‘When you give him anything he puts it straight in his mouth. He seems to think everything is for eating. I gave him a rattle the other day and he just chewed on it.’
Milo’s mum says, ‘Milo used to do just the same, but now he knows the difference between toys that make a rattle noise and toys that don’t. So he knows which ones to shake and which ones to chew.’
Referring to the comments about Billy and Milo, outline Piaget’s theory about schema development.
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16 marks
6 marksOutline one strength and one limitation of Piaget’s research into conservation.
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216 marks
16 marksDiscuss what psychological research has told us about children’s understanding of object permanence.
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316 marks
16 marksDescribe and evaluate Piaget’s research in relation to the pre-operational stage of intellectual development.
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416 marks
Two school inspectors are writing reports of their recent primary school observations. Mrs McLean writes, ‘Students worked alone. They were given tasks and materials then had to solve problems by trial and error’.
Mrs Watt writes, ‘Students worked in pairs of differing ability so they could help each other and talk through each stage. The teacher demonstrated and advised them until they could manage on their own.’
Discuss Piaget’s and Vygotsky’s views on the development of cognition. Refer to the inspectors’ comments in your answer.
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