Oscar, a college student, is checking seven-year-old Meyer to see what cognitive skills he has. He asks him to do some basic conservation tasks. Meyer has correctly responded that there is still the same amount of clay, whether it is in a round ball or rolled out into a hotdog-type shape. When Oscar asks why, Meyer demonstrates how the hotdog-type shaped piece of clay can be rolled back into a ball. This shows that Meyer has a good grasp of
a. assimilation.
b. transformational thought.
c. equilibrium.
d. primary circular reactions.
Question 2
Cognitive developmental theorists tend to view moral reasoning as involving
a. the progression through an invariant sequence of ways of thinking.
b. a set of behaviors acquired through observation.
c. a battle between id, ego, and superego.
d. a genetic predisposition toward helping that is based on the evolutionary need to survive.
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