03Piaget: Concrete Operational Thought

preoperational stage

children are learning to think symbolically about the world

concrete operational stage

children understand concepts

concrete operational stage

gives ability to PLAN and WORK TOWARDS GOAL

concrete operational stage

can process COMPLEX ideas

7-11 y/o

age range of concrete operational stage

concrete operational stage

involves mastering the use of logic in CONCRETE ways

concrete

can be seen, touched, or experienced directly

tangible

concrete AKA

concrete operational stage

able to make use of logical principles in solving problems that involves the physical world

inductive reasoning

use logic to solve problems that are familiar, but difficulty in hypothetical/abstract problems

inductive reasoning

logical process in which multiple premises believed to be true are combined to obtain a specific conclusion

deducted reasoning

inductive reasoning tends to change during adolescence INTO __________

classification

build schemata and are able to organize objects in many different ways (classes and subclasses)

identity

understanding that objects have qualities that do not change even if the object is altered in some way

reversibility

some things that have been changed can be returned to their original state

conservation

changing one quality can be compensated for by changes in another quality

decentration

child no longer focuses on only one dimension of any object

decentration

child considers changes in other dimensions too

conservation

about keeping the quality despite it changing

seriation

Arranging items along a quantitative dimension in a methodical way