Maternity Nursing Q 187
Which of the following activities, when voiced by the parents following a teaching session about the characteristics of school-age cognitive development would indicate the need for additional teaching?
A. Collecting baseball cards and marbles.
B. Ordering dolls according to size.
C. Considering simple problem-solving options.
D. Developing plans for the future.
Correct Answer: D. Developing plans for the future
The school-aged child is in the stage of concrete operations, marked by inductive reasoning, logical operations, and reversible concrete thought. The ability to consider the future requires formal thought operations, which are not developed until adolescence.
Option A: Collecting baseball cards and marbles is an example of concrete operational thinking. Piaget considered the concrete stage a major turning point in the child’s cognitive development because it marks the beginning of logical or operational thought.
Option B: Children can conserve number (age 6), mass (age 7), and weight (age 9). Conservation is the understanding that something stays the same in quantity even though its appearance changes.
Option C: Simple problem-solving options is an example of the concrete operational thinking of the school age.