Fill in the blank. Logic and planning are abilities affected in middle chldhood

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Logic and planning are abilities affected in middle chldhood by maturation of the ......... of the brain.

According to Piaget, during middle childhood, children develop schemes that enable them to think logically about objects and events in the real world. These schemes equip them for mental processes called ......... operations. Such operations are characterized by ......, the ability to think about the characteristics of an object prior to a change in its appearance, and ....., the ability to think about more than one characteristics of an object at a time.

Many researchers feel that recognition of one's feelings of the same-sex attraction begin in the ....... period of development.

When Gaetano says "I had two tooths fall out" he is demonstrating .......

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1. Logic and planning are abilities affected in middle childhood by maturation of the prefrontal cortex of the brain.
2. According to Piaget, during middle childhood, children develop schemes that enable them to think logically about objects and events in the real world. These schemes equip them for mental processes called concrete operations. Such operations are characterized by symbolic representation, the ability to think about the characteristics of an object prior to a change in its appearance, and decentration, the ability to think about more than one characteristics of an object at a time.
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