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| A child sees 2 glasses of equal height that hold equal amounts of water. One glass of water is poured into a new, tall, skinny glass. | |
| The child mentioned in the above question is able to coordinate several aspects of the task rather then focusing on only one. What is the child able to do now? | |
| The child mentioned in questions 1/2 has the capacity to imagine the water being returned to the original container as proof of conservation | |
| Children in the concrete operational stage are more aware of classification hierarchies. Collections are common at this concrete operation. | |
| A child is asked arrange sticks of different lengths from shortest to longest. He moves in an orderly sequence from the smallest stick to the next largest. | |
| When a concrete operational child is able to seriate mentally, what is that ability called? | |
| A concrete operational child's understanding of space is more accurate that a pre operational child's. What kind of reasoning does the concrete op. child possess? | |
| Part of the reasoning a concrete operational child has has to do with his/her mental representations of familiar, large scale spaces, [such as their school or neighborhood] | |
| A child receives baseball cards for his bday. He spends time that day organizing them. The next day he takes them all out of his binder & reorganizes them. He shows what operation? | |
| A child is able to perform mental rotations. This is aligning the self's frame to match that of a person in a different orientation. This is part of what concrete operation? | |