0910 Cc2413 Ans Supplementary Ex3

Cognitive Development – Exercise of Piaget’s Theory Possible Answers to the Cartoon Exercises: Cartoon 1: Stage 2: Preoperational – the child demonstrated the characteristic of centration as he thought that learning to be “half” as good as others means a test score of 50/100.

Cartoon 2: Stage 2: Preoperational – The child displayed the characteristic of animism by asking if he needs to greet the “Winter” politely.

Cartoon 3: Stage 2 Preoperational – Children displayed the characteristics of centration and egocentrism. They thought the age of 25 – 30 is not young anymore, but they related to the world only through their own age. Thus, the age range of 25 – 30 is not young compared to age 4 or 5. In addition, they ignored an important aspect that the advertisement was hiring a economist (經濟專家), which is not easy to earn such qualification at the age of 25 – 30.

Cartoon 4: Stage 3 Concrete Operational – The girl decided to “Play” freedom by holding a light bulb on right hand and a book on the left hand. This reflects the girl’s abilities to apply or logical operations (set a rule for playing a game) at a concrete level.

Cartoon 5: Stage 2 Preoperational – Children displayed the characteristics of centration and egocentrism. In response to the teacher’s question of “Let’s learn about direction today. Where is the sun coming from?”, the child said “Morning”. It reflects the child only focuses on the time, but ignores the direction where the sun is coming in solving the problem. When the teacher asked the question again “Where is the sun rising from?” The child answered “Outside the window”. When the teacher probed him again, he said “I have no idea to see the sunrise from another place to know where is it rising from”. It reflects his inabilities to understand other’s perspective. Cartoon 6: Stage 4 Formal operational – The boy displayed hypothetical and abstract thinking by saying that he can think about the learning in school from an opposite direction. He used to think the teacher forced him to study and do homework. Now, he thinks that he forces the teacher to teach him and to give homework to him. It reflects his abilities to create a hypothetical situation that is not possible in reality.

Cartoon 7: Stage 3 Concrete Operational – The boy asked the question, “Somewhere must be leaking; how come the so much water has flowed to here?” The child understands and applies logical thinking (rules) of events at a concrete level. Reasoning at everyday tale Young and Middle child (Stage 3 Concrete Operational) tried to solve a problem from trials-and-errors and applied logical thinking from their concrete experiences of opening the jar. The oldest child (Stage 4 Formal Operational) used deductive Updated by May Poon on Mar 22, 2009

reasoning (reasoning from general principles, through specific steps, to a specific conclusion.) by applying the principle of contraction and expansion in response to temperature change (冷縮熱脹) to open the jar.

Updated by May Poon on Mar 22, 2009