PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Inductive Reasoning, Lev Vygotsky, Abscissa And Ordinate
11 Mar 2014
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Concrete operational period- age 6-7, logical understanding (rule based reasoning), concrete ideas- abstract ideas are still too challenging. 3 components of concrete operations: 1) reversibility: understanding of the process of reversibility- physical and mental actions. Concrete operational child will understand subgroups vs. larger groups (subordinate and super ordinate classes of groups)- preoperational child will not: 3) inductive logic- younger children can reason deductively, older children (concrete operational stage) can reason inductively. Horizontal decalage- rather than trial and error (and younger children would do), an older child will recognize the similarity between two problems: ex math problems. Adolescence- characterized by the shift to abstract ideas: understanding of isms - ex. Communism, etc: progressive shift in how scientific/methodological the child is in problem solving, naive idealism- the adolescent believes he/she can work anything out- they want to try things because they think they have the answer. Slide 26- check the e and 7 only: many adults do not answer this question correctly.
