Human Growth and Development / Unit 7 HGD 0914 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Concrete Operational Stage
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The idea
Piaget's concrete operational stage, from about seven to eleven, brings logical thought about concrete, tangible problems, but not yet abstract or hypothetical ones.
In practice
A nine-year-old solving a problem with blocks on the table, then stumped when the same problem is posed hypothetically.
Where people slip
Operations are logical mental actions that can be reversed; this reversibility separates concrete thinking from the preoperational stage.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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