Centration of Thought and Decentration
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Centering / decentering: It consists of whether the child focuses their attention on a
a specific trait of an object or a situation automatically decentrates it.
the rest. And if the person with the child draws attention to another trait
different, then it focuses on that other trait, but automatically it
decenters from the previous one. To verify this, Piaget conducted several experiments. A B
It depends on the trait that the child focuses on (height...), (the child says that
there is more quantity in B; it has off-centered the width). The other classic test of
Piaget: the modeling clay: he gives him a ball and in front of him he flattens it like a cookie.
Centration: part of the reason why children in the preoperational stage do not
they can think logically because they focus attention on an aspect or
detail of the situation at the same time and are unable to take into account others
details, the child at this stage has difficulty considering two dimensions
different at once. It is a tendency of the infant to focus on just one
characteristics without considering others. Piaget adopted the term centration to
characterize the cognitive development described in the preoperational stage.
This aspect manifests in different ways, both in the child's incapacity
to know what the point of view of an object may be for a stranger to it
as well as to know, during communication with others, the capabilities
or the needs of this to adapt its own discourse or understand that of
those.
REDUCED LANGUAGE AND INCREASED LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
For Piaget, language is reduced to a form of intelligence, which does not
build an explicit theory about language acquisition, although one can
extract from his works:
"Language and Thought in the Child": establishes primacy.
of thought about language. Language is the result of development
cognitive, is a byproduct of intelligence. It introduces the notion
of 'egocentric language' which is prior to socialized language and the result of the
beginnings of cognitive decentration. Egocentric language is the language of the
children who are with other children but are not communicating, they talk to themselves
the same. Thought in its origin and development is egocentric, from there,
first, an egocentric language emerges and then a socialized language,
communicative language.
EGOCENTRISM AND SOCIOCENTRISM
Egocentrism is the inability to take someone else's place to imagine their
point of view of another person. Egocentrism according to Piaget are those traits
characteristics of the thinking of children ages 2 to 6-7 years
assuming important differences with the socialized thought of adulthood.
Piaget applies the egocentric character to pre-operational thinking and distinguishes it.
both from the practical intelligence of the sensorimotor as well as from thought
conceptual specific to concrete operations.
At this stage, the child tends to feel and understand everything through himself.
it is difficult for him to distinguish what belongs to the outside world and to others
people and what belongs to their subjective vision, for the same reason, have difficulty
to be aware of one's own thinking.
Piaget made clear, through simple experiences, the difficulty that they have
same as differentiating the own self from the outside world.
First we observe an egocentrism that manifests in the speech of the
small ones and that consists of talking only about oneself, not being interested in
the point of view of the other, nor to place oneself in relation to him. They are the frequent
monologues (solitary or collective) of children, which show, according to Piaget,
existence of this egocentric speech.
Ethnocentrism (or sociocentrism) is related to the psychological mechanism
unconscious that drives us to consider ourselves and our
membership groups as different and, in general, as better or more
more important than the others in some aspect. According to Piaget, sociocentrism is
a non-operational way of thinking that remains centered on the subject
(individual or collective). It is transmitted and consolidated thanks to the constraining of the
tradition and education, and contrasts with rational operations that
they involve the decentralization and the free play of a cooperation of thought
founded on action.
The egocentric thought responds to the same mechanism, which constitutes a
characteristic phase in the development of intelligence on an individual level.
CONSERVATION OF CONTINUOUS QUANTITY: LIQUIDS
Conservation is a necessary condition for all rational activity.
A continuous quantity like a length, a volume, is only usable in the
to the extent that it constitutes a permanent whole independently of the
possible combinations made in the arrangement of the parts.
Conservation will always be a necessary condition for all intelligibility.
mathematics.
Continuous quantities are not considered at first glance as constants,
but its conservation is built up gradually according to a
intellectual mechanism, which allows him to consider the quantity itself as the
total amount.
To achieve conservation, the child must be able to set aside the
perceptual relationships, not coordinated with each other of equality or difference
qualitative, to achieve a logical coordination that allows classification of
equalities and serialization that determines the constitution of differences
intensive.
CONSERVATION OF VOLUME
Children in the concrete operational stage learn that the quantity of
A liquid remains the same even when placed in a different container.
shape, but of the same capacity. Children under eight years old rarely
they take into account at the same time two dimensions, such as height and width;
they generally judge the amount of liquid by a single dimension, almost
always the height.
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