PSYB20H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Metacognition, Sub-Saharan Africa, Procedural Knowledge
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Piaget"s stage of formal operations: piaget called the final stage of cognitive development formal operations when they develop the capacity for abstract thought. This development, usually around age 11, gives them a new, more flexible way to manipulate information. they can understand historical time and extraterrestrial space. They can use symbols for other symbols, for example, letting the letter x stand for an unknown numeral, and thus can learn algebra and calculus. They can better appreciate metaphor ( all the world"s a stage ) and allegory (life of pi as a story about a different but parallel set of events) and thus can find richer meanings in literature. They can think in terms of what might be, not just what is. Hypothetical-deductive reasoning: when adam first sees the pendulum, he is not yet 7 years old and is in the preoperational stage.
