AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The concrete operational phase centers around three elements : Conservation and reversibility: Conservation the understanding that objects can change in size, volume, or appearance but essentially remain the same.

Detailed explanation-2: -The concrete operational child is able to make use of logical principles in solving problems involving the physical world. For example, the child can understand principles of cause and effect, size, and distance.

Detailed explanation-3: -Conservation is the understanding that something stays the same in quantity even though its appearance changes. This can apply to aspects such as volume, number, area etc. To be more technical conservation is the ability to understand that redistributing material does not affect its mass, number, volume or length.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the third, or concrete operational, stage, from age 7 to age 11 or 12, occur the beginning of logic in the child’s thought processes and the beginning of the classification of objects by their similarities and differences.