Child development/Concrete thinking?

[curiosity]

My five year old daughter has been doing the Green Cross code at school. Whilst telling us all about it, she explained that you stop, look & listen and keep looking & listening. She thought a bit then quizzed us" Haha but, If you can't see and you can't hear, how do you cross the road?" I said that you would ask someone for help crossing the road. She came back with "What if...You can't see, you can't hear, you can't speak, and ...you were bald! how would you cross the road?" We found this so funny, couldn't wait to tell our bald friends. But why did she make the assumption? is this an example of concrete thinking? her thinking about lacking things to do with the head? and obviously not understanding the complex nature of the senses? Just wanted to share it, but wondered if my guess at this being an example of concrete thinking was anywhere near?

[kipchik]

Are we talking concrete operations?

[kipchik]

If so its normally in ages 7+,rule playing and using their mental abilities for rights and responsibilities,so she's really clued up for a 5 year old,

[curiosity]

Sorry don't know what that means, I was talking about how our thought processes go through developmental changes, as we get older, and when we are younger we are only able to think in a certain way. I think it might be Piagets explantion that calls it concrete thinking. It's not that I'm obsessed with the development of my child, it just seemed funny, and yet somehow logical that she included lack of hair with all the other things.

[curiosity]

sorry You answered before my post, I meant I don't know what concrete operations refers to, but now I've read your next answer, I think you are referring to a more sophisticated level of strategic thinking, with the games/rules thing but I might be wrong.

[kipchik]

Sorry curiosity,i'm rambling,problem is the course i'm on is child development/psychology,and piagets views are coming out of my ears,there are 3 main stages,the first is sensory motor,the second is pre-operational and the third is concrete operations where a child understands rules and the effects of what is around them,

[curiosity]

No worries, my problem is I was on a course years ago, and now it's all rolling into one. It might not have anything to do with Piaget, or it might be that Concrete thinking is part of the Pre operational stage. Some one might help us out here.

[kipchik]

In pre-op a child does use her imagination,and take in whats going on around her so i'd say you're pretty well on to it.