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Moving from sensorimotor to pre-operational stage
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children understand that things stand for things, symbol relationships
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What age is the pre-operational stage in?
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2-7 yrs.
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Irreversibility
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3 things, add fourth, take one away, back to original four
irreversible relationships (having an older brother, brother will have brother as you too) |
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Egocentrism
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(4/5 yrs) have difficulty seeing other perspectives
mountains on table experiment |
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Centering
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children are focused on one dimension
orange juice in taller glass looks like there is more (these children are only looking at height) |
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Transformation of states
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5/6 year olds have trouble understanding how liquids transform
when asked to draw liquid levels they do not take into account gravity when the bottle is turned a bit |
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Unable to conserve
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mass, length, number
clay, rope, marbles |
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What is the best way to teach children in the pre operational stage to conserve?
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Wait til they are naturally discovering it, then reinforce the skills
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Transductive Reasoning
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Children make false accusations:
A causes B therefore B causes A A causes B therefore C causes D Piaget's daughter made inferences about her friend that were not true |
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Concrete operations age
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7-11 years
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Things that are mastered in the concrete operations stage
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combining, placing things in order, repeating, separating, Venn Diagrams, class inclusions and hierarchies
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What are two problems children face in the concrete operational stage?
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Wooden bead test (When asked if there were more wooden beads than brown beads, children were puzzled because all beads were wooden)
Still think in one dimension (when asked to compare cat and mouse, will only compare size) |
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What is peculiar about the formal operations stage and what age does this occur?
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11-12 and up, Piaget noticed some people never fully get to this stage
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Some characteristics of the formal operations stage?
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think like a scientist, assess possibilities , think in proportions and multiple dimensions (ex. the question does it float requires analyzing many dimensions), much better at following lines/logic of an argument
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