Jean Piaget
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With reference to Child Development and Pedagogy, consider the following statements regarding the various stages of Jean Piaget's 'Theory of Cognitive Development' and their specific characteristics:
- 1. During the 'Pre-operational Stage' (approximately 2 to 7 years), children develop the full quality of 'conservation', due to which they understand very well that even if the size, shape, or container of an object changes, its quantity or mass remains unchanged.
- 2. The thinking of children in this stage exhibits 'egocentrism', which means that the child believes that all other people also view, feel, and think about the world from the same perspective as he or she sees it.
- 3. In the 'Concrete Operational Stage' (approximately 7 to 11 years), the child acquires the ability to 'classify' objects based on their properties, arrange them in ascending and descending order ('seriation'), and perform 'decentration'.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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Detailed Explanation & Solution
Statement 1 is false because the quality of 'conservation' is not found in children of the pre-operational stage, rather it is a key feature of the 'concrete operational stage' (7-11 years). A child in the pre-operational stage suffers from 'irreversibility' and 'centration', meaning that they can focus on only one dimension of an object and cannot understand that quantity can remain the same when form changes. Statement 2 is true; egocentrism is a main symptom of the pre-operational stage, where the child is unable to understand the perspective of others. Statement 3 is true; in the concrete operational stage, children learn to classify, seriate, decentralize, and think logically about concrete objects. Therefore, only statements 2 and 3 are correct.
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