Ohio County High School
Family and Consumer Sciences
Child & Human Development
Intellectual Development of the Preschooler
1. What is Piaget’s 2nd stage of his developmental theory?
2. What is the first substage in the preoperational stage?
3. Fill-in-the-blanks:
a. Children ages ________ to ________ are beginning to develop some concepts
b. Children are able to form a _____________ ____________ of what they see around
them
c. However, many of these concepts are _________________ or ________________
d. Children may see different members of the same group as identical, such as all
______________ as _______________
4. What is the second substage in the preoperational stage?
5. Fill-in-the-blanks:
a. Children sometimes are able to grasp a problem’s solution by how they _________
about it.
b. Children base their solutions on “feeling” their way through problems rather than on
__________________.
c. For example, a child standing on the ladder of a slide may say to his or her parent, “I’m
taller than you,” because he or she can see over the parent's head. The intuitive
preschooler doesn't use logic, such as “I may look taller, but my feet are higher than my
parent’s feet; thus I am still shorter than my parent.”
6. What is “egocentrism?”
7. What are four new abilities that emerge during the preschool stage?
8. Describe what things are taking place when preschoolers are participating in symbolic play.
9. What are mental images?
10. What are two important aspects of mental images?
11. Describe a preschooler’s drawings.
12. Describe language development of a preschooler.
13. What are four physical attributes that preschool children are developing?
14. Preschool children are limited in their thinking about physical attributes for two reasons. What
are those two reasons?
15. What does it mean to classify objects?
16. Can preschoolers arrange objects by size?
17. Can preschoolers count?
18. Does counting show that a preschooler understands numbers?
19. What else must a preschooler understand in order to master number concepts?
20. What are four other number concepts that preschoolers struggle with?
21. What are some spatial concepts that preschoolers do understand?
22. True or False. Preschoolers may not know what is on the other side of a wall in their own house.
23. What is one thing that parents can allow preschoolers to do at home in order to help them
better understand spatial concepts?
24. What concepts make it difficult for preschoolers to understand time?
25. How do preschoolers try to understand cause and effect?
26. Do preschoolers assign human qualities to nonhuman objects? How so?
27. How does egocentrism affect language abilities?
28. When is the sound of the English language mastered?
29. How many words to preschoolers know at the following ages?
a. 3 years =
b. 4 years =
c. 5 years =
30. Do preschoolers always notice proper word order?