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Piaget's Concrete Operational Stage

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State

In Piaget's concrete operational stage, roughly ages seven to eleven, children reason logically about concrete objects and events.

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A child now conserves, classifies, and reverses operations mentally when real objects are involved.

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Logical reasoning here is tied to the concrete. Hypothetical premises are still difficult.