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 key characteristics:
- 1. During the Pre-operational Stage (2 to 7 years), the quality of 'Conservation' is fully developed in children, due to which they understand that even if the shape or form of an object changes, its quantity, mass, or volume remains unchanged.
- 2. In the Concrete Operational Stage (7 to 11 years), children learn well the ability to seriate objects based on their physical properties, classify them, and perform 'Decentration'.
- 3. In the Formal Operational Stage (11 years onwards), the capacity for 'Hypothetico-Deductive Reasoning' and 'Abstract Thinking' is fully developed within adolescents, enabling them to logically imagine various solutions to problems.
Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?
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Statement 1 is incorrect, because the quality of 'conservation' does not develop in the pre-operational stage but during the 'concrete operational stage' (7 to 11 years). Children in the pre-operational stage lack conservation and suffer from the tendency of 'centration' (i.e., they can focus on only one dimension of an object at a time).
Statement 2 is true, because in the concrete operational stage (7-11 years), the child acquires the ability to logically sort, classify, seriate, and decentralize objects.
Statement 3 is true, because in the formal operational stage (after 11 years), higher mental capacities like abstract thinking and hypothetico-deductive reasoning develop.
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