Question

Read through each of the following statements and then determine which stage of cognitive development that person is in. Preoperational, sensorimotor, concrete operational , formal operational 1. You take an infant's toy and place it behind the couch. The infant starts crying because he thinks it is gone. Stage: 1. There are two glasses of milk sitting on the table. One is a tall thin glass and the other is a fat short glass, but they each have the same amount of milk in them. When given a choice, Tommy takes the tall thin glass. Stage: 1. You have two piles of coins. One pile has a dime and the other pile has ten pennies. Susie chooses the pile with the ten pennies because she thinks it has more money. Stage:

Answer 1

Q1. This involves the sensorimotor stage. The child has not yet achieved object permanence i.e. the knowledge that things continue to exist even when they cannot be seen.

Q2. This involves the concrete operational stage as in this children children begin to use logic. Tommy will soon understand that the amount of milk in both the glasses is the same.

Q3. This also involves the concrete operational stage.

Q4. This again is the concrete operational stage. Here, children are able to work out things internally.