PSYB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Dyslexia, Moral Development, Procedural Knowledge
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Lecture 9 cognitive development in middle childhood ch 12. Piagetian approach: the concrete operational child (middle childhood) Concrete operations: at about at 7 according to piaget, children enter the stage of concrete operations. They begin to use mental operations to solve actual problems and can think logically because they can take multiple aspects of a situation into account. They show this by spatial relationships and categorization. Spatial relationships: are better understood and tied to increasing sophistication with symbolic thinking eg. ) driving to grandmas, remembering landmarks to assist their memory. Inductive reasoning = moves from particular observations about members of a class to a general conclusion about that class eg. ) child hears his dog bark and thinks that all dogs bark. This reasoning is based on a larger class so is better. Conservation: principle of identity -> same amount even though different shape. Requires reversibility and decentre eg. ) glass with juice.
