Author Question: Attempts to validate the universality of Piaget's stages of development have found that a. while ... (Read 76 times)

EAugust · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Attempts to validate the universality of Piaget's stages of development have found that

a. while rates of development appear to be culturally consistent, the sequence of the stages varies.
b. while the sequence of the stages is consistent, rates of development vary.
c. genetics shapes rates of development, but culture has no influence.
d. both the sequence of stages and rates of development are uniform across cultures.

Question 2

Ms. Fortunato, a secondary school teacher in the United States, is interested in how Piaget's findings might apply to children in preindustrial countries. Recent evidence suggests that

a. formal operational thought is evident only in industrialized countries.
b. the sequence of Piaget's stages is culturally dependent.
c. while the sequence of stages appears to be culturally universal, the rate of development may vary cross-culturally.
d. rates of development are consistent in most cultures, but many children in tribal communities skip the formal-operational stage of development.