Question

Some Western legal systems denote either 7 or 8 as the age at which a child attains reason.Is such a designation defensible from a Piagetian standpoint?
A.Yes. Children do acquire some basic reasoning skills during the concrete operationalperiod.
B.Yes. Children become capable of abstract, hypothetical reasoning during the concreteoperational period.
C.No. Children are unable to reason prior to the formal operational period.
D.No. Children can reason much earlier than this, during the preoperational period.

Answer 1

"Yes. Children do acquire some basic reasoning skills during the concrete operational period".

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

From a Piagetian point of view, the idea that children learn by re-presenting their knowledge is compatible with the child's cognitive understanding of constructing or recreating meaning from their interactions with the world.

As some Western legal systems denote either 7 or 8 as the age at which a child attains reason because children do acquire some basic reasoning skills during the concrete operational period therefore such a designation defensible from a Piagetian standpoint.