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According to Piaget, children in the middle childhood are in their concrete operational stage. They are beginning to think logically, but can only apply logic to physical objects. They gain abilities of conservation and reversibility. They start thinking more rational and organized. Problem solving becomes easier, but is still reached through concrete thinking. Their decentering ability and classification ability is improved. They are able to identify different things and categorize them into groups. Children in this stage also understand seriation and can mentally arrange items along a quantifiable dimension. (McLeod,