How would you compare and contrast Piaget’s views about concrete operational and formal thought and give examples of each?
How would you compare and contrast Piaget’s views about concrete operational and formal thought and give examples of each?
Piaget's belief that children construct their own mental structures through a constant and active series of interactions with their environment lead him to determine various stages of development involved in forming cognition. Among the defined four stages by him, we will take into account the concrete operational stage and the formal operational stage. The concrete Operations stage account for the age from 7 till 11/12 years and the thoughts are decentered meaning that children can pay attention to transformations and not just initial and final stages of thinking. A child in this stage also shows reversibility. For example, pouring milk into a tall glass and a short wide glass and asking the child the quantity in both, and telling them to reverse/undo it. Another ability is classification, here in this example the child's tendency to classify/identify the shape and size of different glass. Though the thinking develops in this stage it is still less systematic and can only be limited to actual concrete things.
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