PSYB20H3 Chapter 12: Chapter 12
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Piagetian approach: the concrete operational child: at about age 7, according to piaget, children enter the stage of concrete operations and begin to use mental operations to solve concrete (actual) problems. Begin to use mental operations to solve actual problems. They have a better understanding of spatial concepts, causality, categorization, reasoning, conservation, and number. inductive and deductive. Spatial relationships: children in the stage of concrete operations can better understand spatial relationships than those in the preoperational stage, which is tied to their increasing sophistication with symbolic thinking. For example, if a > b, and b > c, then a > c: class inclusion is the ability to see the relationship between a whole and its parts. Piaget showed pre- operational children a bunch of 10 flowers 7 roses and 3 carnations and asked whether there were more roses or more flowers.
