Jean Piaget
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Consider the following statements regarding Jean Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development:
- 1. In the pre-operational stage, the quality of 'conservation' is fully developed within children, making them understand that changing the shape or form of an object does not affect its quantity or volume.
- 2. During the concrete operational stage, children acquire the ability of 'decentration', enabling them to view an object or problem from multiple perspectives simultaneously rather than from a single dimension.
- 3. The formal operational stage begins around 11-12 years of age, during which children acquire the ability for abstract thinking and hypothetico-deductive reasoning.
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 (2-7 years) but during the 'concrete operational stage' (7-11 years). Children in the pre-operational stage suffer from limitations like 'irreversibility' and 'centration'. Statement 2 is correct; children attain the ability of decentration in the concrete operational stage. Statement 3 is correct; abstract thinking and hypothetico-deductive reasoning develop in the formal operational stage (11 years onwards). Therefore, only statements 2 and 3 are correct.
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