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In Piaget's Concrete Operational Stage, what is the term for a child's ability to consider multiple aspects of a situation at the same time ?

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Decentring

In Piaget's framework, centration refers to focusing on only one aspect of a situation while ignoring others, which is typical of the preoperational stage.

Decentring (or decentration) is the opposite ability that emerges in the concrete operational stage, allowing a child to attend to multiple aspects of a situation simultaneously.

This ability to decentre underlies other concrete operational skills such as conservation, but the specific term for considering several aspects at once is decentring.

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