Significance of Logic

To me the most significant part of chapter twelve is Piaget’s thought on Significance of Logic. Piaget shows that there is some signs of younger children being able to categorize in means of being able to see something and put it into a group that is well represented by it. The older the stage the child is in the ideas they have about categorizing is better, such as being able to take out those things that are not necessarily relevant to something whereas the younger child would have it be apart of the whole general thought.

Piaget also shows that children (school aged) are able to understand identity which is, when you know who you are or who something is and the changes in the appearance is not something that makes you any bit different… Kind of like somebody being fat at a young age tends to think of themselves grown up as still a fat kid. It amazes me that something so complex to the world is so simply understood by children who haven’t even learned what the term “psychology” is.

The next thought of interest that Piaget hit on was the concept of reversibility. Reversibility is the ability for somebody to change the event from what it is now back to what it was before. I remember firmly learning this concept via different puzzles or something as small as changing a sign from +/- in basic mathematics. Thank god for this concept because if it weren’t for this I guess people would waste a lot more than we already do…

When the logic of children comes through you can tell in many fashions. You start seeing something of a formed mind being able to grasp concepts such as people don’t always like the same thing. Also being able to see children make different decisions as to how they treat others due to their understandability.