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Blue Main Idea Graphic Organizer (21 X 27.94 CM)
Blue Main Idea Graphic Organizer (21 X 27.94 CM)
Blue Main Idea Graphic Organizer (21 X 27.94 CM)
Development
Symbolic This ability is used to represent things and events. Decentering This refers to the child's capacity to perceive
Function A symbol is anything that depicts something else many characteristics of objects and
through drawing, writing, or speaking and is circumstances where they are no longer
recognized to represent an actual item. concentrated or confined to a certain
Centration This is where the ability of a child is fixated on one dimension.
element of an object or event while ignoring
Reversibility The child may now follow some procedures
that can be done in reverse.
others.
Conservation This is the capacity to recognize that particular
Reversibility Children in the pre-operational stage are unable to qualities of objects, such as number, mass,
reverse their reasoning. volume, or area, do not change despite
Animism This is a child's proclivity to assign human-like changes in appearance.
features or characteristics to inanimate objects. Seriation Seriation refers to the capacity to organize or
arrange items in series depending on a single
Tranductive Refers to the style of thinking used by the pre- dimension such as weight, volume, or size.
operational kid, which is neither inductive nor
Reasoning
deductive.