The Turners have two children. Their son Ike is a 10-year-old concrete operational thinker. Their daughter Tina is a 14-year-old formal operational thinker. Describe three different situations in which Ike and Tina would respond differently based on their current stages of thinking. Be sure to describe both the situation and the responses
What will be an ideal response?
If you tell both children, "If you hit a glass with a feather, the glass will break.". The concrete operational thinker will respond with "the glass will break" while the formal operational thinker will use their knowledge of the world and respond with "the glass will not break.". If you give each child several crayons and tell them that one combination of colors will produce a purple color, the concrete operational thinker will begin mixing all of the colors in a haphazard way while the formal operational thinker will begin by trying out different color pair combinations and evaluating each one. If you give both children several puzzle pieces from two different puzzles and tell them that some of the puzzle pieces will go together to create puzzle, the concrete operational thinker will begin haphazardly grabbing pieces and attempting to fit them together with no particular order while the formal operational thinker will begin by trying to identify similar pieces and fitting those together, evaluating the process along the way.
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