Stage 3

Cards (7)

  • Stage 3 - CONCRETE operational stage
  • 7 - 11 years
  • Children have decentred
    they are no longer egocentric and that they can understand more than one feature of a situation (will be able to read as will be able to look at the words rather than individual letters).
  • Child now able to conserve and can perform quite complex operations but only if ‘real’ objects are ‘at hand’
  • Conservation
    when children know that the properties of certain objects remain the same (are conserved) even if the objects appear to change.
  • Linguistic humour
    child understand word games and double meanings
  • Seriation
    has developed the ability to put things in rank order