Activity 9.1 Matching

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Activity 9.1 Matching

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Matching – Limitations of Preoperational Thought

Using the pull-down menus, match each item in the left column to the corresponding item in the right column.


	The characteristic of preoperational thought in which the child focuses on one aspect of the situation but neglects other important features.

	Suzie is shown four chocolate chip cookies and eight sugar cookies. When asked whether there are more sugar cookies or more cookies, Suzie responds, “More sugar cookies.”

	Three-year-old Timmy says, “The fire is mean. It hurt me.”

	Johannes is shown two identical jars of water. He agrees they contain the same amount of water. Next, the water is poured from one of the tall jars into a shorter, wider jar. When Johannes is then asked whether the amount of water is still the same or whether is has changed, he reports there is less water in the short, wide jar.

	In the three-mountains problem, Natalie is asked to pick the picture that shows “what the doll sees,” but Natalie picks the picture that shows her own perspective.

	The inability to mentally go through a series of steps in a problem and then return to the starting point.

1.1 Egocentrism

1.2 Animistic thinking

1.3 Inability to conserve

1.4 Centration

1.5 Irreversibility

1.6 Lack of hierarchical classification

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