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  2. Horizontal and vertical décalage - Wikipedia

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    The ability to arrange rods in order of decreasing/increasing size is always acquired prior to the capacity to seriate according to weight. [6] A commonly cited example of vertical décalage "can be observed between the constitution of practical or sensorimotor space and that of representative space " [ 6 ] For example, at the age of 2, a child ...

  3. Water-level task - Wikipedia

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    Piaget and Inhelder developed the test as part of their work on child development. It was first described in their book The Child's Conception of Space , published in French in 1948, with an English translation appearing in 1956.

  4. Piaget's theory of cognitive development - Wikipedia

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    Piaget sees children's conception of causation as a march from "primitive" conceptions of cause to those of a more scientific, rigorous, and mechanical nature. These primitive concepts are characterized as supernatural, with a decidedly non-natural or non-mechanical tone. Piaget has as his most basic assumption that babies are phenomenists ...

  5. Mental operations - Wikipedia

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    Jean Piaget identifies several mental operations of the concrete operational stage of cognitive development: [3] Mental operations according to Jean Piaget. Seriation—the ability to sort objects in an order according to size, shape, or any other characteristic. For example, if given different-shaded objects they may make a color gradient.

  6. Model of hierarchical complexity - Wikipedia

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    The model of hierarchical complexity (MHC) is a formal theory and a mathematical psychology framework for scoring how complex a behavior is. [4] Developed by Michael Lamport Commons and colleagues, [3] it quantifies the order of hierarchical complexity of a task based on mathematical principles of how the information is organized, [5] in terms of information science.

  7. Conservation (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Piaget's studies of conservation led him to observe the stages which children pass through when gaining the ability to conserve. In the first stage, children do not yet have the ability to conserve. During the conservation of liquid task, children will respond that a liquid in a tall glass always has more liquid than that of a short glass; they ...

  8. Three Hours To Change Your Life - images.huffingtonpost.com

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    the first has somehow, in some way, been my best year yet. So, as I often say to participants in the workshop, “If a school teacher from Nebraska can do it, so can you!”

  9. Developmental psychology - Wikipedia

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    Michael Commons enhanced and simplified Bärbel Inhelder and Piaget's developmental theory and offers a standard method of examining the universal pattern of development. The Model of Hierarchical Complexity (MHC) is not based on the assessment of domain-specific information, It divides the Order of Hierarchical Complexity of tasks to be ...