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PSY 119: General Psychology-Piagetian Stages
Your Mission: Identify the stage of cognitive development of the person described in each scenario. ÿExplain your answer using Piaget?s cognitive development principles.
1.ÿÿJohnny and his friends become lost in a very large city park while playing in the woods. ÿAfter overcoming an initial panic reaction, they figure out that they can find the way out by ?backtracking? and using the landmarks that they saw on their way in to the woods. ÿThey do so and emerge from the woods ten minutes later.
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2.ÿBaby Hannah sees her mama pick up a shiny, sharp and utterly fascinating object from the kitchen floor and put it out of her reach on the counter. ÿWhen mama leaves the room, Hannah sees a chair at the table four feet from the counter, looks again at the counter, and then begins to drag the chair slowly from the table to the counter. ÿShe is climbing up on the chair just as her mother returns to the kitchen.
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3.ÿJermaine is asked the meaning of the saying ?A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.? ÿHe says that sometimes it is not a good idea to let go of what you have for something that seems better because you could end up with nothing.
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4.ÿJasmine is asked whether she has a sister. ÿShe says yes. ÿShe is asked whether her sister has a sister. ÿShe says no.
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5.ÿThe babysitter can keep Maurice entertained for an hour with the game of peek-a-boo.
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6.ÿEmily is crying. ÿShe sees that her mother gave her big brother four fish sticks while she was only given two. ÿShe says, ?He has more than me. ÿThat?s not fair!? ÿHer mother picks up the plate and cuts Emily?s fish sticks in half. ÿShe puts them in front of the delighted Emily, who starts to eat them without complaint.
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7.ÿIf you ask Dora who the tallest, smartest or funniest person in her class is, she will answer the question fairly accurately.
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8.ÿSarah is at a sleepover party where some of her friends are smoking cigarettes. ÿThey suggest that she try smoking to help keep her weight down. ÿShe imagines the possibility that that would work. ÿShe also imagines being fifty and having lung cancer. ÿShe declines the invitation.
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