According to Prof. Jean Piaget the mental development of 0-14 years age group occurs in four stages. Name the stage of development for 7-11 years age group

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Answer 1

Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist, has made a systematic study of cognitive development in his theory that is categorized in four stages.

Key Points

The concrete operational stage is the third stage in Piaget's theory of Cognitive Development which lies between 7-11 years, age group.

In this stage, children can classify objects into groups and subgroups and gain the abilities of conservation of number, area, volume, and orientation.
Children show attainment of the concept of reversibility, seriation, transitivity as a cognitive capacity.
Reversibility is the understanding that a child develops to know that things that have been changed can be returned to their original state.
Children can conserve numbers (age 6), mass (age 7), and weight (age 9). Conservation is the understanding that something stays the same in quantity even when its appearance changes.

Hence, it could be concluded that the stage of development for 7-11 years age group is known as the 'concrete operational stage'

Important Points

The Four Stages of Cognitive Development:

Stage	Development
Sensorimotor (0 to 2 years)	In this stage, infants progressively construct an understanding of the world by using their senses along with physical interactions with objects. The development of object permanence is one of the most important accomplishments of this stage.
Pre-operational (2 to 7 years)	Children develop memory, curiosity, and imagination. They are also able to understand things symbolically (playing house, having a tea party). Thinking is egocentric and doesn’t consider other’s viewpoints.
Concrete Operational (7 to 11 years)	Ability to distinguish between their own thoughts and the thoughts of others children can classify objects by their number, mass, etc. Ability to think logically about objects and events
Formal Operational (11 years to older)	Abstract and scientific thinking Capable of hypothetical and deductive reasoning Ability to think abstractly, metacognition and problem solving