Concrete

• Concrete Operations


  Stage of cognitive development according to Jean Piaget, at about 7 years of age
• Concrete Operations


  • Children can now think logically because they can take multiple aspects of situations into account
  • Their thinking is still limited to real situations in the here and now
• Spatial concepts


  • Allows to interpret maps and navigate environment
• Causality


  • Makes judgement about cause and effects
• Categorization


  • Seriation: arranging objects in a series according to one or more dimensions
  • Transitive Inferences/Transivity: e.g. A < B < C
  • Class Inclusion: ability to see the relationship between a whole and its parts, and to understand categories within a whole
• Inductive Reasoning


  • Involves making observations about particular members of a class of people, animals, objects, or events, and then drawing conclusions about the class as a whole
• Deductive Reasoning


  • Starts with a general statement about a class and applies it to particular members of the class
• Piaget believed that children in the concrete operations stage only used inductive reasoning
• Conservation


  • Principle of Identity: still same object even tho it has different appearance
  • Principle of Reversibility: can picture what would happen if he tried to roll back the clay of snake
  • Decenter: ability to look at more than one aspect of the two objects at once