PSYCH 9B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cognitive Development, Phoneme, Object Permanence
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The name of the stage captures both the abilities and the limitations of the child. The child can now perform an action on an object mentally. They can see you pouring the liquid from the wide glass to the thin glass and can mentally reverse that and imagine pouring it back. They can perform actions mentally, and they can reverse those actions. Concrete= the child does this best; only able to do this systematically when they"re thinking about things, in principle, they can do in the world. They"re thinking about actual concrete things they can do. They only think about things that are concrete and cant think more abstractly or about hypotheticals. Children can think about abstract things or hypotheticals. Doesn"t mean people stop learning at this point, but according to piaget, your way of learning doesn"t go through anymore fundamental transformations. What factors control how fast an object on a. Length of the string, weight of the end, etc.
