stages of intellectual development
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CONCRETE OPERATIONAL STAGE(7 to 11 years)
“In this stage the capacity for logical thought firstemerges.”
Important mental abilities developed
Inductive – deductive reasoning
Flexibility in thinking
Understanding the principle of conservation
Classification and serialization
Transitivity
Reversibility of thought
INDUCTIVE - DEDUCTIVE REASONING
The child begins to think in terms of set of interrelated principles rather than a set of knowledge.
Flexibility In Thinking
The child’s egocentrism waves and he is able to takeother’s view points.
He did not think of himself as the center of externalworld.
UNDERSTANDING THE PRINCIPLE OF CONSERVATION
“ Which picture contain large number of greenblocks? ”
Understanding principle of Conservation:
The child now develops the ability to conserveboth in terms of quantity and number of objects.
He can now very well think that the change inappearance of an object does not alter either it’squantity or it’s number.
HOW WE CAN CHECK ABILITY TO CONSERVE IN TERMS OF QUANTITY?
CLASSIFICATION AND SERIALIZATION
Can you classify these?
Apple, Carrot, Orange, Grapes, Ladies finger,
Pine apple, Cabbage, Cucumber, Banana.
Can you arrange the numbers in ascending order?
33, 12, 56, 7, 17, 9, 50.
Classification and serialization:
The child develops the ability to classify objects.
He develops the under standing of relational termsand also the ability of serialization.
TRANSITIVITY
"Neethu is taller than Divya, Divya is taller than Asha.”
Then who is taller among these girls?
Can you find the missing number?
7, 10 ,13, _ , 19 , 20 , 23, 26
Transitivity:
Transitivity is the ability to recognize relation amongthe series.
Reversibility of thought.
At this stage the child learn to carry a thoughtbackward and forward in time
FORMAL OPERATIONAL STAGE(12 to 15 years)
In this stage the child’s thought process become quitesystematic and reasonably well integrated.
Important accomplishment of the period:
Ability to deal with abstraction
Hypothetico – deductive reasoning
Systematic approach to solve the problem
Use of abstract rules
Ability to transfer knowledge
CONCLUSIONThe organization of the mental structure in all
children always take place in a particular orderinvolving definite stages of intellectual development.Thus although children of the same age may differ interms of possession of mental abilities, the order, inwhich the abilities evolve, and the pattern ofdevelopment are quite constant and universal. In thisway according to Piaget , after the expiry of the formaloperational stage the child may reach full intellectualpotential.
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