In the context of cognitive development of children, explain the principle of transitivity.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. If your parents are older than you are and you are older than your children, are your parents older than your children? The answer, of course, is yes. But how did you arrive at this answer? If you said yes simply on the basis of knowing that your parents are older than your children (e.g., 58 and 56 compared with 5 and 3), your answer did not require concrete-operational thought. One aspect of such thought is the principle of transitivity: If A exceeds B in some property (say, age or height) and if B exceeds C, then A must also exceed C.Researchers can assess whether children understand the principle of transitivity by asking them to place objects in a series, or order, according to some property, such as lining up one's family members according to age, height, or weight. Placing objects in a series is termed seriation.
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