Which demonstrates the school-age child's developing logic in the stage of concrete operations (select all that apply)?
a. The school-age child is able to recognize that he can be a son, brother, or nephew at the same time.
b. The school-age child understands the principles of adding, subtracting, and reversibility.
c. The school-age child understands the principles of adding, subtracting, and reversibility.
d. The school-age child has thinking that is characterized by egocentrism and animism.
ANS: A, B, C
The school-age child understands that the properties of objects do not change when their order, form, or appearance does. Conservation occurs in the concrete operations stage. Comprehension of class inclusion occurs as the school-age child's logic increases. The child begins to understand that a person can be in more than one class at the same time. This is characteristic of concrete thinking and logical reasoning. The school-age child is able to understand principles of adding, subtracting, and the process of reversibility, which occurs in the stage of concrete operations. Thinking that is characterized by egocentrism and animism occurs in the intuitive thought stage, not the concrete operations stage of development.
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