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= Definition: = The young child's tendency to think of the world in terms of one variable at a time. HGD, Chapter 7, p. 164

The child in this stage focus on only one aspect of a situation, problem or object.

= Examples: = An example of centration is animism. As the book points out on p.164, paragraph 1, "a child may fear that because a leaf blows across the playground, that it could be trying to follow them"

A child may complain that there is little ice cream left in a big bowl. the child will be satisfied if the ice cream is transferred to a little bowl, even though nothing is added, because he only considers how full the bowl appears to be.

The child is focused on the corn. The child appears to be looking at the corn in a small aspect rather then the corn in a big picture.

= Analogies: = Centration to a child is like a math problem to a math professor. the math professor only focuses on the math problem

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