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5:53 PM cobra.parkland.edu ..1 Verizon Piaget's Cognitive Abilities: Respond to the following questions. Be sure to explain your answers. These questions are not asking for the stages of Piaget's theory. 4. A child gives his mom, who is sick, his favorite stuffed animal, and says, "This is a treat for you and will make you feel better." He thinks because the stuffed animal makes him feel better, it will also make his mom feel better. What phenomenon is being displayed by the child? 5. Johnny threatened to tell his parents when his older brother Paul gave him only one of the three candy bars they were supposed to share. Paul then took Johnny's bar, broke it in half, and gave him back the two pieces. This satisfied Johnny, because now he had two pieces just like Paul. What disadvantage does Johnny have that allows him to be cheated? 6. Sally is adept at roller skating goes ice skating for the first time. She keeps trying to stand and move just as she would on roller skates but she falls again and again. According to Piaget, what process is necessary for mastery of this skill?

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4. The phenomenon being displayed by the child is characteristic of egocentricism. This is an inability to understand or assume any perspective other than one’s own. In this case, the child is unable to differentiate between his/her preferences and that of his/her mother, which is why he/she gives her the stuffed toy used to soothe him.

5. Johnny is in a stage wherein he is unable to conserve. Conservation refers to the ability to determine that a certain quantity will remain the same despite adjustment of the container, shape, or apparent size. Here, Johnny is not able to comprehend that the quantity of the same object, when broken into parts would remain the same.

6. Accommodation is necessary for this skill. This is because the process of accommodation involves altering one's existing schemas, or ideas, as a result of new information or new experiences. Sally needs to alter her existing strategies of roller skating to adapt it to ice skating.

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