Cognitive Development Piaget Flashcards
What age is a child in the Concrete Operations stage?
school aged child from ages 7-11
What age is a child in the Formal Operations Stage
12 years and on
Name either formal or concrete operations stage?
Use thought processes to experience events and actions
Concrete
Abstract thinking including logic, deductive reasoning, comparison and classification
Formal operations
Mental manipulation of multiple variables
Formal operations
Develop understanding of relationships between things and ideas
Concrete Operations
Able to make judgments based on reason
“concrete thinking”
concrete operations
Think beyond present
formal operations
concerned about others thoughts and needs
formal operations
Understand the concepts of decentration, conservation, seriation, classification and reversibility
concrete operations
Choose between decentration, conservation, seriation, classification and reversibility for next questions:
Ability to sequence in order i.e. from smallest to largest
seriation
ability to mentally reverse an action
reversibility
ability to focus on more than one aspect of a situation
decentration
ability to group objects based on common characteristics
classification
recognition that some aspects of objects remain the same despite changes in appearance (i.e. a broken cookie is still a whole cookie even though it is in several difference pieces)
conservation