The Concrete Stages Of Children Aged 8-11 Develop Impaired And Better At Conservation Tasks ( Conservation )

Piaget was the first psychologist to make a systematic study of cognitive development. Piaget’s work includes a detailed observational study of cognition in children. Piaget showed that young children think in different ways to adults. According to Piaget, children are born with a very basic mental structure (genetically inherited and evolved) on which all subsequent knowledge is based.

The concrete operational stage occurs during seven to eleven years of age. Children are now able to perform concrete operations, such as math. They also develop the ability to reason logically if it isn’t abstract. Seriation and transitivity are also included in this stage. Seriation, a mastery task, is when children can order numbers, objects, etc. into a correct order with things such as numerical order or length. (Santrock)

Vygotsky may have overplayed importance on social influences because he suggests that child’s cognitive development occurs through social interactions, for example children do internalisation of problem solving via mutual interactions. However, if social learning is the essence of cognitive development then learning would be a lot faster than it is. Thus Vygotsky ignores the biological aspects that aid or restricts the cognitive development such as the development of brain and maturation. Therefore Piaget’s theory of cognitive development is different to

I would address Piaget concrete operational stage of cognitive development. The Concrete operational stage is the third stage of Piaget cognitive development. This period is characterized by the development of logical thought. Kids at concrete operational stage are within the ages of 7-12 years. At this stage, they can understand and logically think about concrete and specific things, but they still struggle with grasping abstract concept. Piaget considered this stage to be a major turnaround in the cognitive development of a child because it marks the beginning of operational thought. The child is mature enough to understand operations(rules) but can only apply logic to physical objects hence the name concrete operational.

In the first stage, Piaget looked at understanding object permanence which is recognizing if an object still exist even when it is out of sight (Cardwell & Flanagan,2004). Children below the age of two failed to grasp the concept. Next, Piaget examined if children, in pre- operational stage, could understand the logic. He did this by seeing if children could understand that despite the change of the appearance of an object, it would remain the same (Cardwell & Flanagan, 2004). In his conservation experiment, Piaget showed children identical glass full of equal amount of liquid. He then pours the liquid of one the glasses in a taller narrow glass. After which, he would ask the child, "what glass has more?". Inevitably, the child would say the tall the narrow glass, believing it contained more liquid because of the height of the glass (Cardwell & Flanagan, 2004). Piaget believed that this was caused by centration , and was based on perception instead of logic (Cardwell & Flanagan, 2004).

Northcentral University Piaget vs. Vygotsky Theories of the Mind By: Forrest Clay EDU-800 V2 Dr. Morgan Jean Piaget profound biologist in pioneering work in the child development field. Established one of the most known theories to Psychologist in the form of cognitive development. This theory tries to explain how a child’s mind works and the construction of a mental model of society and the world. He disagreed with the idea that intelligence was a fixed trait and regarded cognitive development as a process which occurs due to biological maturation and interaction with the environment (McLeod, 2015).

The concrete operational stage occurs between 7 to 11 years. Piaget contended that children’s abstract thinking is now limited thus being able to think logically about objects which in turn enables abilities of reversibility and conservation (in Smith P.K. et al.,

Although Piaget is many things, he is especially known for his groundbreaking work in child development psychology. He described his work as genetic epistemology, since genetic means the scientific study of where things come from and epistemology is about the basic categories of thinking. Ultimately, Piaget’s theory was known as, the developmental stage theory.

Jean Piaget (1896-1980) suggested that children have a different thought process than that of an adult (.REF) He argued that all children go through the same four stages of cognitive development in the same order and that development is biologically based which changes as the child matures. Piaget had a stage theory that children learn to adapt to the world around them by constant interaction, and that adaption significantly depends on two main processes, which, are accommodation and assimilation. Another two important concepts of Piaget’s theory are schema and equilibration. Schema which refers to organised knowledge that is used to guide action such as body schema, which helps an infant in its attempts to make sense of the world by the infant

In the concrete operational stage between the ages of seven and twelve, children become capable of logical thought, they also start to be able to think abstractly. However they are best suited to visible or concrete objects and things they can see (Lee and Gupta). Once the child has reached the formal operations stage from twelve years onwards it becomes more practiced at abstract processing, carrying out problem solving systematically and methodically thus completing the cognitive development process.

Justification of this critique was also provided by Vygotsky theory of development .Vygotsky (1929) believes that adults and child’s peers are involved in shaping cognitive development of the

The concrete operational stage involves children from ages seven to eleven years of age. At this stage children begin to logically think and organize based off detail. Children begin to demonstrate seriation, which involves being able to organize based off “quantitative dimension” such as length (Santrock 185). An example being having a teacher instruct his or her students to organize wooden sticks by length.

In the sensorimotor stage the child discovers the environment through physical actions such as sucking, grabbing, shaking and pushing. During these first two years of life children realize objects still exist, even if it is out of view. This concept is known as object permanence. Children in the preoperational stage develop language skills, but may only grasp an idea with repeated exposure. As Piaget describes in the next stage, children draw on knowledge that is based on real life situations to provide more logical explanations and predictions. Lastly, in the formal operational stage children use higher levels of thinking and present abstract ideas.

When a child becomes school age they cognitively become capable of thinking in more complex ways, and therefore are able to learn how to read, write, and understand mathematical concepts. It is at this time that children, according to Piaget. begin the stage of concrete operations, meaning, they begin to understand

Piagets theory of cognitive development a child mentally accepts the world. He does not believe that intelligence is not a fixed trait. Piagets believed that children when through four different stages of mental development, which lead him on to observing his daughter and nephew which reinforced his hypothesis that “children’s minds were not merely smaller version of adult minds” where he then continued on to develop a stage theory of