Jean Piaget
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Under Child Development and Pedagogy, consider the following statements regarding Jean Piaget's 'Theory of Cognitive Development':
- 1. According to Piaget, cognitive development is not a continuous process, but occurs through four qualitatively distinct sequential stages, where each stage reconstructs the preceding stage.
- 2. During the 'Pre-operational Stage' (approximately 2 to 7 years), the abilities of 'Conservation' and 'Decentration' fully develop in children, enabling them to understand the fundamental properties of an object despite changes in its shape or form.
- 3. In the 'Concrete Operational Stage' (approximately 7 to 11 years), children learn the ability to classify objects into categories or sub-categories (Classification) and 'Seriation', but they remain unable to think logically about abstract and hypothetical propositions.
Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?
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Detailed Explanation
Statement 1 is correct because, according to Jean Piaget, cognitive development takes place in qualitative stages and is stage-bound rather than continuous. Statement 2 is incorrect because the abilities of 'Conservation' and 'Decentration' do not develop in the pre-operational stage, but rather in the 'Concrete Operational Stage'. Children in the pre-operational stage exhibit egocentrism and a lack of conservation. Statement 3 is correct because in the concrete operational stage, children learn mental operations like classification, seriation, and conservation, whereas the development of abstract thinking occurs in the 'Formal Operational Stage'. Therefore, only statements 1 and 3 are correct.
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