PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Lev Vygotsky, Autobiographical Memory, Psy
4 Aug 2020
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From 7 11 years old, children enter the concrete operational stage of piagetian development. Children can comprehend conservation, the concept that a quantity of something is. Can perform concrete operations, which are actions that are applied to real, concrete the same regardless of shape or container. objects, rather than regular operations which occur mentally and can be reversed. Also allows children to comprehend more than one quality of something simultaneously. subsets of information. Children can classify things by multiple qualities and organize them into different. Children can serialize, or organize things in order based on one quality (length). Also comprehend transitivity, which is the concept that ordered relations (a > b > C, so a > c) also apply to every member of the order. Neo-piagetians believe that piaget got some things right, but that his theory needed to be revised.
