CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -In psychology, centration is the tendency to focus on one salient aspect of a situation and neglect other, possibly relevant aspects. Introduced by the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget through his cognitive-developmental stage theory, centration is a behaviour often demonstrated in the preoperational stage.

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: -Centration is the act of focusing all attention on one characteristic or dimension of a situation while disregarding all others.

Detailed explanation-4: -An example of centration is a child focusing on the number of pieces of cake that each person has, regardless of the size of the pieces. Centration is one of the reasons that young children have difficulty understanding the concept of conservation.

Detailed explanation-5: -What is Attentional Bias? The attentional bias describes our tendency to focus on certain elements while ignoring others. Research has shown that many different factors can bias our attention, from external events and stimuli (such as a perceived threat to our safety) to internal states (such as hunger or sadness).