CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
They are also limited by ____ to focus on one aspect of the problem and reject other important aspects.
A
Animisms
B
Scaffolding
C
Centration
D
Metacognition
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In psychology, centration is the tendency to focus on one salient aspect of a situation and neglect other, possibly relevant aspects.

Detailed explanation-2: -Thus it is clear that a child focuses on one aspect of a situation and ignores the others, this is due to concentration.

Detailed explanation-3: -These include the inability to decenter, conserve, understand seriation (the inability to understand that objects can be organized into a logical series or order) and to carry out inclusion tasks. Children in the preoperational stage are able to focus on only one aspect or dimension of problems (i.e. centration).

Detailed explanation-4: -Simultaneous focusing (centering) on more than one aspect or dimension of a problem or situation. Being able to focus on multiple parts of a problem at once. It has implications for conservation and other intellectual undertakings.

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