To answer this question, address the following points, some of which are covered in detail in one of Watson’s lectures:
- Detail the many shifts that occur between five and seven years of age.
- Talk about the cognitive characteristics of the end product, the child in the concrete operational stage.
- Discuss the differences between the preschooler (age 3-5) and the school age (age 7-11) child in terms of how they think differently.
- Speculate as to why this shift might or might not make children ready for school.
- Are these shifts continuous, as Bandura would assert, or they discontinuous, as Piaget believed? Defend your answer.
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