Jean Piaget
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With reference to Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, which of the following characteristics most accurately defines the period of the 'Concrete Operational Stage' (approximately 7 to 11 years)?
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According to Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, children in the 'Concrete Operational Stage' (7 to 11 years) develop the ability of conservation (e.g., invariance of mass, number, and area), decentration (focusing on more than one aspect of an object simultaneously), and classification.
However, their reasoning does not yet reach abstract ideas and remains limited to concrete objects and situations.
Option (a) relates to the pre-operational stage, option (b) is a characteristic of the formal operational stage, and option (d) represents the sensory-motor stage. Therefore, option (c) is the correct answer.
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