Middle Childhood

Cognitive Development
 Drawings and
Cognitive
Development

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 Drawings and Cognitive
Development
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Piaget- Concrete Operations
• Concrete operational stage- ages 7-11 approx.
• New patterns of thought
– Classifying- into sets or subsets, to see the
interrelationships

– Seriation- ordering things quantitatively

• Length
Piaget- Concrete Operations
– Decentering/ Decentration- looking at more
than one aspect of something

– Reversibility- reversible mental action