Q1 · hard · AI-verified
Arjun (Class 6) can correctly answer: 'Ram is taller than Shyam; Shyam is taller than Mohan; who is tallest?' only when physical sticks are placed in front of him, but fails when the problem is stated verbally alone. According to Piaget, Arjun is operating at which stage?
- Formal Operational stage
- Concrete Operational stage
- Sensorimotor stage
- Preoperational stage
Q2 · hard · AI-verified
A Class 7 student is shown three sticks of different lengths and correctly concludes that if Stick A > Stick B and Stick B > Stick C, then Stick A > Stick C, without physically placing the sticks together. Which Piagetian cognitive skill does this demonstrate?
- Class inclusion
- Seriation
- Conservation of length
- Transitive inference
Q3 · hard · AI-verified
A Class 8 mathematics teacher designs a task where students must discover the rule governing a number pattern (e.g., 2, 6, 12, 20, 30…) by formulating and testing hypotheses. This task is best designed to promote which Piagetian cognitive process?
- Hypothetico-deductive reasoning
- Concrete manipulation and trial-error learning
- Assimilation without accommodation
- Centration on numerical values
Q4 · hard · AI-verified
In Piaget's theory, 'combinatorial thinking' — the ability to systematically consider all possible combinations of variables — first emerges in which stage?
- Preoperational stage
- Formal operational stage
- Concrete operational stage
- Late sensorimotor stage
Q5 · hard · AI-verified
A teacher notices that her Class 6 student Arjun can successfully sort 30 objects by both colour AND shape simultaneously, without losing track of one criterion while applying the other. In Piaget's framework, this ability is called:
- Multiple classification
- Transitive inference
- Decentration
- Reversibility