Educational Psychology / Unit 3 EDP 0228 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Concrete Operations
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The idea
In the concrete operational stage children reason logically about concrete objects, using reversibility and decentration to solve conservation and class-inclusion problems.
In practice
Asked whether there are more dogs or more animals, a nine-year-old answers animals.
Where people slip
Their logic still fails on purely verbal problems, so hands-on, concrete examples work best at this age.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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