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berenicecastro

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Which one of the following statements best describes Piaget's view of how children acquire knowledge about the world?
 
  a. Children are naturally disposed to think about their environment in particular ways; in a sense, some basic knowledge about the world is pre-wired.
  b. Children actively construct their own view of the world from their experiences with the environment.
  c. Children repeatedly parrot their parents' and teachers' beliefs, eventually internalizing these beliefs as their own knowledge.
  d. Initially, children unconsciously develop a rather complex and confused view of the world, but this view becomes simpler and more straightforward as time goes on.

Question 2

If we look at cognitive development from Piaget's perspective, we would expect a child in the concrete operations stage to have the greatest difficulty with which one of the following questions?
 
  a. How are an apple and a blueberry alike?
  b. If you have 8 Macintosh apples and 2 Golden Delicious apples, then do you have more Macintoshes or more apples?
  c. An apple pie is cut into 4 pieces. A blueberry pie of the same size is cut into 12 pieces. How many pieces of blueberry pie do you need to have the same amount as 3 pieces of the apple pie?
  d. If we have one row of blueberries spread like so: o o o o o o
   and another row of blueberries spread like so: o o o o o o
   then does one row have more blueberries than the other?



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bigsis44

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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

c




berenicecastro

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)


parshano

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Gracias!

 

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