Ravi notices that fewer pupils attend an after-school club than expected. He considers two possible explanations: some pupils do not know the club's meeting time, or the club clashes with another activity. Before collecting information, he predicts what evidence would support each explanation. He then plans how to check the two explanations.
Name the stage of cognitive development that Ravi's thinking shows.
Using Piaget's theory, identify two features of Ravi's thinking that are typical of this stage.
104 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 2.2 Theories/Explanations, covering 2.2.1 Piaget's four invariant stages, 2.2.2 Assimilation and accommodation, 2.2.3 Object permanence, animism, egocentrism, 2.2.4 Decentration, reversibility, conservation; criticisms, 2.2.5 Cognitive Development research study: Piaget (1952), 2.2.6 Dweck's fixed and growth mindsets, 2.2.7 Willingham's learning styles and meaning; criticisms, and 2.2.8 Learning research study: Blackwell et al. (2007). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.