Question

In Women's Ways of Knowing, the authors reported that the women they were interviewing sometimes said, "You're asking the wrong question!" They interpreted this to mean that these women were in which of Perry's stages of cognitive development?
A. Received Knowledge
B. Subjective Knowledge
C. Procedural Knowledge
D. Constructed Knowledge

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is D. Constructed knowledge.

Explanation:

Constructed knowledge is one of Perry's stages of cognitive development can is a concept that can be understood as an integration made by the individual of a set of pieces of knowledge previously learned from other people thanks to personal experience.

A person with constructed knowledge can integrate information and can be reflective about their learning.

In this particular question, the fact that the women were able to dicern whether the question being asked was correct or wrong is a prove that the women were in the Constructed knowledge of the Perry's Stages of cognitive development.

Answer 2

Answer: B. Constructed knowledge

Explanation: The constructed knowledge also known as the commitment within contextual relativism stage. It is the stage whereby previously learnt schemes or knowledge are integrated to a new setting or used to make conclusion on present decisions. During this stage, applying knowledge from experience dominates decision making and application to challenges rather than taking arbitrary approaches to everyday task.

In the scenario above, the women said 'You are asking the wrong question' because, having applied previous knowledge and experiences to the question asked, they felt the question shouldn't be asked in such way or manner.