If we look at cognitive development from Piaget's perspective, we would expect a child in the concrete operations stage to have the greatest difficulty with which one of the following questions?
A) How are an apple and a blueberry alike?
B) If you have 8 Macintosh apples and 2 Golden Delicious apples, then do you have more Macintoshes or more apples?
C) An apple pie is cut into 4 pieces. A blueberry pie of the same size is cut into 12 pieces. How many pieces of blueberry pie do you need to have the same amount as 3 pieces of the apple pie?
D) If we have one row of blueberries spread like so: o o o o o o and another row of blueberries spread like so: $\begin{array} { l l l l l l }
o & o & o & o & o & o
\end{array}$
Then does one row have more blueberries than the other?

Question

If we look at cognitive development from Piaget's perspective, we would expect a child in the concrete operations stage to have the greatest difficulty with which one of the following questions?
A) How are an apple and a blueberry alike?
B) If you have 8 Macintosh apples and 2 Golden Delicious apples, then do you have more Macintoshes or more apples?
C) An apple pie is cut into 4 pieces. A blueberry pie of the same size is cut into 12 pieces. How many pieces of blueberry pie do you need to have the same amount as 3 pieces of the apple pie?
D) If we have one row of blueberries spread like so: o o o o o o and another row of blueberries spread like so: $\begin{array} { l l l l l l } 
o & o & o & o & o & o
\end{array}$
Then does one row have more blueberries than the other?

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Children in the concrete operational stage (ages 7 to 11) can logically think about objects and events. However, they struggle with abstract and hypothetical concepts. Question C requires understanding proportions and fractions in a more abstract manner than the concrete comparisons and direct observations involved in the other options.

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If We Look at Cognitive Development from Piaget's Perspective, We $\begin{array} { l l l l l l } o & o & o & o & o & o\end{array}$