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A teacher shows two identical glasses filled with an equal amount of juice in them. She empties them in two different glasses one of which is taller and the other one is wider. She asks her class to identify which glass would have more juice in it. Students reply that the taller glass has more juice. Her students have difficulty in dealing with

A teacher shows two identical glasses filled with an equal amount of juice in them. She empties them in two different glasses one of which is taller and the other one is wider. She asks her class to identify which glass would have more juice in it. Students reply that the taller glass has more juice. Her students have difficulty in dealing with Correct Answer Decentring

Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist, belongs to the cognitive school of psychology, is famous for his work on child development. He strongly believed that children are little scientist and they actively construct their understanding of the world.

Key Points

The theory is categorized into four stages as explained below:

Stage

Characteristics of a child

Sensorimotor (0-2 yrs):

Egocentric (has no view of others, self-view matters)

Learning by taste, smell

Able to crawl and walk

Object permanence (ability to remember objects)

Pre-operational (2-7 yrs)

Learns language and pretending

Animism (the belief that toys have emotions)

Learn symbolic representation

Egocentric initially, but at the end of the stage it began to vanish

Centration: Focus on only one aspect

Conservation: The idea which states the quantity of a substance remains the same even if transferred from one object to another

Concrete operational (7-11)

Conservation

Seriation: Ability to understand that even if objects are placed at distant positions, their number remains the same.

Reversibility: Ability to understand that a process can be reversed.

Decentring: ability to think on another aspect.
Transitivity: If A = B and B = C, then A = C

Formal operational (11 yrs onwards)

Abstract thinking (ability to be imaginative)

Learns complex calculations

 

Hence, we conclude that the above situation showing the students have difficulty in dealing with​ the decentring process.

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