Jean Piaget's Concrete Operational Stage
The Concrete Operational Stage Jean Piaget was a psychologist who was originally from Switzerland. He found five consistent systems within certain broad age3 ranges. The five stages are: 1. Sensorimotor stage-ages 0-2 2. Preoperational stage-ages 2-7 3. Concrete operations stage-ages 7-11 4. Formal operations stage-ages 11-16 5. Late formal operations stage-ages 16 to adulthood In this paper I have concentrated on school age children, ages seven to eleven who are in the concrete operational stage.
At around the age of seven years, a child demonstrates characteristics of a major shift in thinking. At this point the child is moving into Piaget 's third major period of cognitive growth called concrete operations.
In this stage, children are …show more content…
Yet research suggest that he underestimated the cognitive abilities of preschool aged children. This may have occurred because Piaget overestimated young children 's understanding the use of language. He may have assumed that wrong answers revealed fault in thinking, whereas errors may have arisen from the way he phrased the problems. Also, children may have not been able to verbalize what they actually knew. So, many researchers say that all the abilities that Piaget said come about in the concrete operation stage may actually appear earlier on in younger children. However, it is also possible that children in the United States are much more intellectually stimulated than they were in France and therefore that is the reason that these cognitive abilities seem to appear in younger children.
Piaget also failed to consider differences among children, among families and among cultures when outlining topic sequence and age ranges for developing abilities.
Although there is some criticism of Piaget 's stages his description of children 's thoughts helps teachers decide when and how to present various concepts to children.
References Berk, Laura E. Infants, Children and Adolescents. Massachusetts.Allyn and
At around the age of seven years, a child demonstrates characteristics of a major shift in thinking. At this point the child is moving into Piaget 's third major period of cognitive growth called concrete operations.
In this stage, children are …show more content…
Yet research suggest that he underestimated the cognitive abilities of preschool aged children. This may have occurred because Piaget overestimated young children 's understanding the use of language. He may have assumed that wrong answers revealed fault in thinking, whereas errors may have arisen from the way he phrased the problems. Also, children may have not been able to verbalize what they actually knew. So, many researchers say that all the abilities that Piaget said come about in the concrete operation stage may actually appear earlier on in younger children. However, it is also possible that children in the United States are much more intellectually stimulated than they were in France and therefore that is the reason that these cognitive abilities seem to appear in younger children.
Piaget also failed to consider differences among children, among families and among cultures when outlining topic sequence and age ranges for developing abilities.
Although there is some criticism of Piaget 's stages his description of children 's thoughts helps teachers decide when and how to present various concepts to children.
References Berk, Laura E. Infants, Children and Adolescents. Massachusetts.Allyn and