6-12 years- Cognitive Flashcards
1
Q
Describe the concrete operational stage for 7-11 year olds
A
- Operations are mental representations of actions that obey logical rules
- Child reason’s logically about concrete events, classify objects into various sets
- Uses rules (operations) to solve complex problems
- Only apply logic to physical objects
- Can’t understand abstract concepts
2
Q
What is decenter?
A
Able to focus on more than one aspect of a task at once
3
Q
What is conservation?
A
Explain why objects remain the same when physical characteristics change
4
Q
What operations are achieved in the pre-operational stage?
A
- Decenter
- Conservation
- Reversibility
- Hierarchal sequencing
- Seriation
5
Q
What is reversibility?
A
Work through stage of a task mentally and then reverse (more complex problem solving- moving beyond understanding conservations)
6
Q
What is hierarchal sequencing?
A
Classify similar objects together
7
Q
What is seriation?
A
Putting things in order based on magnitude or quantity (counting)
