Q 01/05

Peek-a-boo delights babies who still lack which ability, first studied in infants by Jean Piaget?

A) Depth perception

B) Object permanence

C) Colour discrimination

D) Self-recognition

Answer · why

B) Object permanence

Object permanence is knowing a thing still exists when it is out of sight, so a baby without it treats a hidden face as gone for good. Piaget tested i...

Q 02/05

Jean Piaget's account of how intelligence begins in infancy rested on close observation of which babies?

A) Orphans in a Geneva home

B) Infants at a Paris clinic

C) Babies in a Zürich nursery

D) His own three children

Answer · why

D) His own three children

His own three children, Jacqueline, Lucienne and Laurent, were the only subjects of The Origins of Intelligence in Children. His wife Valentine, a psy...

Q 03/05

Jean Piaget vividly remembered which childhood event until his former nanny admitted she had made it up?

A) A kidnapping attempt

B) A fire in the nursery

C) A fall through lake ice

D) A runaway carriage horse

Answer · why

A) A kidnapping attempt

A kidnapping attempt on baby Jean in his pram never happened: the nanny wrote to his parents when he was 15 to confess the lie. The memory stayed vivi...

Q 04/05

Jean Piaget said his research into how children understand time was suggested by which famous physicist?

A) Niels Bohr

B) Max Planck

C) Albert Einstein

D) Erwin Schrödinger

Answer · why

C) Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein, presiding over a lecture course at Davos, asked whether our intuitive grasp of time is primitive or derived, and how it relates to ou...

Q 05/05

As a teenager, Jean Piaget won a scientific reputation by publishing articles about which animals?

A) Beetles

B) Mollusks

C) Butterflies

D) Lizards

Answer · why

B) Mollusks

Mollusks made the schoolboy so well known among European zoologists that he was offered a curator's post, which he had to turn down in order to finish...