PSY 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psy, Animism, Critical Period
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They are however limited i very specific ways. They believe that if an object moves, it is alive (animism). They can attend to only one dimension at a time (height or width, but not both), but not more than one. This is called centration, the ability to attend to only one feature at a time. Conservation of quantity and number requires the logical process called reversibility (putting things back the way they stated). They are also egocentric, which means that they can only see. The third stage of cognitive development is called the concrete operations stage (ages 7 to 12): in this stage, children develop logical thought and can conserve quantity and number. They no longer believe in animism and can see other people"s point of view. They however, can only represent concrete objects in their minds. They cannot represent concrete objects using symbols: all the limitation form the previous stage are now possible.
