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Part One
Theme: The period of middle and late childhood sees the beginning emergence of an individual with both cognitive development, self image, and a life outside the family.

Although there are major changes and growth in the infancy years, the middle and late childhood stages are quite crucial for different changes. This is when the child builds on the skills he/she has already learned, as well as develops more cognitive skills, and how Piaget created the cognitive development theory. The child begins to show concrete operational thought.
Piaget proposed that the concrete operational stage lasts from approximately seven to eleven years of age (Santrock 323). He believes that at this age, the child can reason logically, as long as it is applied to specific examples. An example would be the clay experiment. It starts with two pieces of clay rolled into balls, both the same size. One then is rolled down flat, and the child is asked which one has more clay. It......

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