PSYCH211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Main Plot, Cerebral Cortex, Synaptic Pruning
31 Mar 2017
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Concrete operational stage: extends from about 7 to 11 years; compared with early childhood, thought is more logical, flexible, and organized. The ability to pass conservation tasks provides clear evidence of operations mental actions that obey logical rules. Decentration: focusing on several aspects of a problem and relating them, rather than centering on just one. Reversibility: the capacity to think through a series of steps and then mentally reverse direction, returning to the starting point. Between ages 7 and 10, children pass piaget"s class inclusion problem they are more aware of classification hierarchies and can focus on relations between a general category and two specific categories at the same time. Seriation: the ability to order items along a quantitative dimension, such as length or weight. The concrete operational child can also seriate mentally, an ability called transitive inference. Piaget found that school-age children"s understanding of space is more accurate than that of preschoolers.
