The research consisted in studying the ways of moving from the non-operative level of thinking to the operative one mediated by situations of social-cognitive conflicts in children between the ages of 5 and 7 in three sessions of social interaction facing the test of length maintenance. The experimental sessions, in number of three, lasted on average 30 minutes. Each session consisted of eight experimental situations, and from the second one on, seven conflict situations were introduced. The results showed the creation of five patterns of learning conducts, many of which, going from the presence of constant fluctuations up to the stability of the response since the first operative argument. The patterns found show that the children learn in different ways and that the use of the technique of the social-cognitive conflict was effective in promoting the learning.
learning; conduct patterns and social-cognitive conflict
