Use of symbols, don't need to see on object to think about it, give people or objects other qualities ex. apple slice is a vacuum

Understanding identities, superficial changes don't change the person

Able to classify, put objects into different groups

Irreversibility, children don't understand that actions can be reversed, like pouring juice back into a juice box

Transductive reasoning, children don't use inductive or deductive reasoning, jump to conclusions ex. Sarah got mad at brother, then brother got sick

Animism, children attribute life to objects not a live

Inability to distinguish appearance from reality, it looks like a rock so it is a rock

Egocentric

Conservation

Spatial thinking, can understand a map or find way home

Classification, can classify based on function and understands subcategories, roses compared to all the flowers

Seriation and transitive inference, can put things in order of length, quantity, etc.

Understands conservation

11 years old

Abstract, scientific thinking

Hypothetico-Deductive reasoning, inductive and deductive reasoning

Environmental information is processed

Large capacity 

Duration 1/4- 3 sec

7 (+or- 2) bits of info

Unattended information is quickly lost

Short-term (working) memory

New info is transferred from sensory memory

Old info is retrieved from long-term memory

Limited capacity

Duration 30 sec

Unrehearsed info quickly lost

Info that has been encoded in short-term is stored

Unlimited capacity for info

Duration potentially permanent

Some info may be lost over time