Question

Byron can take sticks of different lengths and put them all in order from shortest to longest. He can also discern that if stick A is longer than B and B is longer than C, then A is longer than C. This ability to logically combine relations to understand certain conclusions is:___________

Answer 1

Answer:

Transitivity

Explanation:

According to Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, in the third stage, which is also referred to as Concrete Operational Stage, a child shows an increased use of logic. One of the expedient segments which develops is transitivity which has to do with the ability to recognize the relationships among a variety of things which are in a serial order. Byron selected sticks according to their length and was able to arrange them from shortest to longest, which displays transitivity. Other abilities gained by children in the concrete operational stage include conservation, reversibility, seriation and class inclusion.