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**191. According to Piaget’s classification system, the child learns language and the logic of classification and numbers during which period?**
A. sensorimotor
B. latency
C. formal operations
**D. concrete operation**
**192. According to Piaget, the ability to ‘think like a scientist’ is characteristic of which of the following developmental stages?**
A. preoperational
B. sensorimotor
**C. formal operational**
D. post-conventional
**193. According to Piaget, a child who is confident that the quantity of milk in a glass does not change when it is poured into a glass of different shape is probably ________________?**
A. between 3 and 5 years old
**B. able to conserve volume**
C. in the preoperational stage of cognitive development
D. engaging in egocentric patterns of play
**194. The term congenital means ______________?**
A. genetic
**B. present at birth**
C. embryonic
D. recessive characteristic
**195. The processes of growth and development are ______________?**
**D. both b and c**
A. constant
B. continuous
C. slow
**196. The children’s game of ‘peek-a-boo’ centers around which of the following developmental concepts?**
**A. schema**
B. conservation
C. formal operational
D. object permanence
**197. What is produced by tactile stimulation of a newborn’s cheek?**
A. Babkin response
**B. rooting response**
C. Moro response
D. grasping response
**198. Who most stressed the importance of maturation in development?**
A. Jean Piaget
B. John Locke
**C. Arnold Gesell**
D. Lev Vygotsky
**199. Within the human embryo, activity related to the development of hair and nails is centered in the ____________?**
**D. ectoderm**
A. mesoderm
B. endoderm
C. exoderm
**200. According to Piaget, children who can think symbolically about absent objects and can appreciate the stable properties of those objects, but cannot think logically about actions that produce change, are at the__________ stage?**
A. formal-operational
**B. concrete-operational**
C. preoperational
D. sensorimotor